SEEKING the Neural Code.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Nicolelis, Miguel A. L.; Ribeiro, Sidarta
- Source
- Scientific American. Dec2006, Vol. 295 Issue 6, p70-77. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 4 Diagrams, 7 Graphs.
- Subject
- *BIOLOGICAL neural networks
*NEURAL circuitry
*NEUROBIOLOGY
*ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
*NEURAL transmission
*NEUROSCIENCES
*BRAIN research
*NEURONS
- Language
- ISSN
- 0036-8733
The article discusses how electrical impulses in the brain are translated into information and presents research on the barrel field of the rodent trigeminal system of the brain, which can allow scientists to answer questions about neural coding in humans. The authors describe the population neural code in which information is encoded in the spatiotemporal activity patterns of entire neural ensembles. INSETS: A SENSORY NETWORK;READING THE MIND OF A RAT;CONVERGING SIGNALS.