Chinese scientists find neurons may act as minicomputers that help decision-making
Chinese scientists have found evidence that individual neurons can act like powerful minicomputers that enable flexible behaviour such as making decisions. Scientists do not have a complete understanding of how our brains adapt to changing contexts to respond appropriately to sensory information. But by studying mice, the team obtained the first experimental evidence that dendrites โ branchlike structures attached to neurons โ can integrate learned rules with incoming sensory inputs to drive...