The Power of Small Brain Networks
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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 ...