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Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning - MIT News Office
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Neuroscience
Neural systems are fluid, even when no learning is taking place
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning - MIT News Office
This seems to be the first publication confirming a property of the brain that's been widely suspected by neuroscientists for years, namely, that neurons change function and behavior over time:
"In earlier work, Bizzi and colleagues measured neural activities in the motor cortex while monkeys manipulated a handle to move a cursor to targets on a screen. In control experiments, the monkeys had to move the cursor to targets in the same way they had been trained. In learning experiments, the monkeys had to adapt their movements to compensate for novel forces applied to the handle.
The scientists found that even when the monkeys were performing the familiar control task, their neural activities gradually changed over the course of the session."
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- Welcome To The Future: Cnn
CNN will air a special report on March 25 titled Welcome to the Future: The Future is in Your Grasp, which looks at progress in a number of areas including health, entertainment and technology. Among the research they're highlighting is the BrainGate...
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