Medica AI 2026

Healthcare is entering a decisive decade.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a promise on the horizon – it is already transforming diagnostics, treatment, research, education and health systems worldwide. The real challenge we now face is not whether AI will change healthcare, but how we design that transformation responsibly, sustainably and at scale.

Tommaso Vicanolo

Paulo Peres

Jose Lopez

Ana Marta Bica

Hyung Ju Jeon

Diogo Carvalho

Jannek Schaffert

11 February 2026

Different Visual Experiences Give Rise to Different Neural Wiring

The visual system is hierarchically organised into different areas. The lower visual areas see small parts of the visual field, and they are sensitive to very simple features, such as edges and their orientation. Higher up the hierarchy, the visual areas start encoding more abstract representations of the world, expanding their visual field to respond to stimuli such as objects and faces.  

Lucas Deijlen

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