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.

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