Simulated sea slug gets addicted to drug

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 08:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists built a computer model of a simple brain network based on that of a sea slug, taught it how to get food, gave it an appetite and the ability to experience reward, added a dash of something called homeostatic plasticity and then exposed it to a very intoxicating drug. To no one’s surprise, the […]

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