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Regardless of which neurons are involved, the overall electric field they generate provides a stable and consistent signal, according to scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and the University of London.
The Atlantic Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain “Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.” 1:00 PM ET Share Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink are confused. As neuroscientists, they know that the brain must be flexible but not too flexible. It must rewire itself in the face of new experiences, but must also consistently represent the features of the external world. How? The relatively simple explanation found in neuroscience textbooks is that specific groups of neurons reliably fire when their ow...