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In the brain, the number of neurons in a network may not matter

February 3, 2014
Artificial Intelligence Neuroscience
Basic Research
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BRAIN

A new study indicates that it may be possible to accurately characterize complete neural networks by recording the activity of properly selected samples of 50 neurons or less - an alternative that is much easier to realize. The study was performed by a team of cognitive neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University and reported in a paper published the week of Feb. 3 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read more at Vanderbilt University News
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