Readying the Neural Network

Synapse, the name for the signal-receiving site on a neuron, comes from the Greek word for contact. Neuroscientists used to maintain that neurons form one-to-one relationship to contact one another. Yet more researchers are finding evidence that shows how neurons function as part of a network. An incoming excitation does not always provoke an outgoing signal. Some excitations change the state of the neuron, readying the neuron for the next signals. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University researchers in Professor Gordon Arbuthnott’s Brain Mechanism for Behavior Unit have just completed a study where they found neurons receiving signals in the area just outside of their synapses, and those signals changed the way that the neurons interpreted the next signals.

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