Neurons firing in the brain in response to external stimulus. (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Neurons firing in the brain in response to external stimulus.

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Our brain neurons have the remarkable ability to fire synchronously when triggered with a common input. But, this common input is usually unrecognized. Now, researchers from Japan have managed to reconstruct this common input by analyzing neuron firing rates.

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Birth Into Being from flickr (Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/111359165@N05/11841180046)

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