Monday, October 6, 2014

"Often, the workings of billions of neurons that produce our thoughts are opaque. But electrical..."

“Often, the workings of billions of neurons that produce our thoughts are opaque. But electrical recordings of signals emitted by grid cells show a map “with a framework and coordinates that are completely intuitive,” Dr. Bargmann said. And to find such a straightforward system is, in its own way, “just mind-boggling.” What is the brain doing being so mysteriously unmysterious?”

- A Sense of Where You Are

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