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The Power of Small Brain Networks

The Power of Small Brain Networks

Science and Nature
Register for the complimentary Nautilus newsletter: science and culture for individuals who enjoy stunning writing. Little might be mightier than we believe when it pertains to brains. This is what neuroscientist Marcella Noorman is gaining from her neuroscientific research study into small animals like fruit flies, whose brains hold around 140,000 nerve cells each, compared to the approximately 86 billion in the human brain. In work released previously this month in Nature NeuroscienceNoorman and coworkers revealed that a little network of cells in the fruit fly brain can finishing an extremely intricate job with excellent precision: keeping a constant orientation. Smaller sized networks were believed to can just discrete ...
The secret of felines and their love of fictional boxes

The secret of felines and their love of fictional boxes

Science and Nature
In Head TripPopSci checks out the relationship in between our brains, our senses, and the weird things that take place in between. Any feline owner understands just how much our feline buddies appear to indulge in the comfort of a box. Felines appear to obtain so much convenience from confined areas that their fondness for boxes extends to areas that have no real walls-- and areas whose "edges" are visual impressions. This curious phenomenon shows prospective resemblances in cat/human sensory experience, and likewise connects into a bigger discussion about how we can comprehend what goes on inside our strange family pets' little heads. Edges are essential-- to people and felines You most likely would not think that the capability to acknowledge edges is vital to our survival, howe...