The question of how neurons find each other to connect was recently studied with experimental connectomics--altering neurons and then mapping their synaptic circuits with electron microscopy--in this paper by Javier…
Having recently visited the Yellowstone National Park, the situation you describe for the North Sea side of Germany applies but worse, the cell phone data connection being non-existent, and with the added issue that…
On 3), the giant fiber is fast but not faster than other descending fibers. If anything, it is more reliable in its ability to signal. See: https://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n7/full/nn.3741.htm... Short abstract…
On eyes in general: the retina is not like a camera pixel array, rather, it extracts all kinds of features and detects motion: "Eye smarter than scientists believed: neural computations in circuits of the retina."…
This could be one case where using a preprint server like the http://biorxiv.org/ would be key. Getting positive peer reviews when peers are opposed in principle is hard: no amount of data will convince them. That said,…
The correction: “Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats” by I. B.-A. Bartal et al. (9 December 2011, p. 1427). On p. 1428, the last full paragraph of column 1 was incorrect. The paragraph should be replaced by this…
The question of how neurons find each other to connect was recently studied with experimental connectomics--altering neurons and then mapping their synaptic circuits with electron microscopy--in this paper by Javier…
Having recently visited the Yellowstone National Park, the situation you describe for the North Sea side of Germany applies but worse, the cell phone data connection being non-existent, and with the added issue that…
On 3), the giant fiber is fast but not faster than other descending fibers. If anything, it is more reliable in its ability to signal. See: https://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n7/full/nn.3741.htm... Short abstract…
On eyes in general: the retina is not like a camera pixel array, rather, it extracts all kinds of features and detects motion: "Eye smarter than scientists believed: neural computations in circuits of the retina."…
This could be one case where using a preprint server like the http://biorxiv.org/ would be key. Getting positive peer reviews when peers are opposed in principle is hard: no amount of data will convince them. That said,…
The correction: “Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats” by I. B.-A. Bartal et al. (9 December 2011, p. 1427). On p. 1428, the last full paragraph of column 1 was incorrect. The paragraph should be replaced by this…