Out of mind in a matter of seconds
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
The dynamics behind signal transmission in the brain are extremely chaotic. This conclusion has been reached by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation at the University of Goettingen and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Goettingen. In addition, the Goettingen-based researchers calculated, for the first time, how quickly information stored in the activity patterns of the cerebral cortex neurones is discarded. At one bit per active neurone per second, the speed at which this information is forgotten is surprisingly high. Physical Review Letters, 105, 268104 (2010)...