The circuit that lets your brain think and see

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades.

According to the conventional account, our eyes collect raw information and relay it through a series of nerves and waystations that lead deep into the brain, eventually reaching the cortex.

There, the thinking begins as information is processed and put to use for higher tasks such as reasoning, judgment and decision-making. ...