Mathematical model of simple circuit in chicken brain raises fundamental questions about neural circuitry
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 01:22
in Biology & Nature
Neural microcircuits consisting of a few neurons and their interconnections are small enough to be understood more completely than larger neural structures, whose complexity quickly becomes overwhelming. Researchers recently tackled a simple circuit in the visual processing area of a chicken's brain that detects motion in its field of view -- with surprising results.