Scientists control rapid re-wiring of brain circuits using patterned visual stimulation
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 05:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have shown for the first time how the brain re-wires and fine-tunes its connections differently depending on the relative timing of sensory stimuli. In most neuroscience textbooks today, there is a widely held model that explains how nerve circuits might refine their connectivity based on patterned firing of brain cells, but it has not previously been directly observed in real time.