Scientists Teach Cultured Brain Cells to Keep Time

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 08:50 in Psychology & Sociology

UCLA scientists tested whether networks of brain cells kept alive in culture could be "trained" to keep time. The findings suggest that networks of brain cells in a petri dish can learn to generate simple timed intervals.

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