Brain boffins think they’ve found the data format we use to store images as memories • The Register

Scientists say they have discovered the neural coding system our brains use to transform images into memories, suggesting we’re all visual thinkers deep down.

The long-held belief that our grey matter turns visual signals into a non-visual form of data to encode as memories is likely false, according to a paper by folks at Dartmouth College in the US and published today in Nature Neuroscience. Rather, it seems more like “retinotopic” information, 3D visual information encoded by the brain via the retina, is the base coding mechanism for memories related to visual…