How information is coded in the brain: New theory about signal propagation
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 10:21
in Psychology & Sociology
For more than fifty years, the neuroscience community has been engaged in an intensive debate on how information is coded in the brain and transmitted reliably from one brain region to the next. Mutually exclusive coding systems have been proposed and are being energetically supported. Scientists in Germany have now demonstrated that earlier studies were based on rather extreme propositions.