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Dodging dots helps explain brain circuitry

July 7, 2014
Neuroscience
Basic Research
Grantee

In a new study, Brown University neuroscientists looked cell-by-cell at the brain circuitry that tadpoles, and possibly other animals, use to avoid collisions. The study produced a model of how individual inhibitory and excitatory neurons can work together to control a simple behavior.