{"id":136038,"date":"2022-02-24T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/study-shows-that-individual-neurons-could-learn"},"modified":"2022-02-24T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:22:19","slug":"study-shows-that-individual-neurons-could-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/study-shows-that-individual-neurons-could-learn","title":{"rendered":"Study shows that individual neurons could learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-that-individual-neurons-could-learn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans have been trying to understand how the brain works and how it acquires information for centuries. While neuroscientists now have a pretty good understanding of how different parts of the brain work and what their function is, many questions remain unanswered; thus, a unified neuroscience theory is still lacking.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, computer scientists have been trying to create computational tools that artificially recreate the functions and processes of the human <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>. New <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/neuroscience\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuroscience<\/a> theories clarifying how the brain makes predictions could help to significantly enhance these tools so that they replicate neural functions in increasingly realistic ways.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience in Lethbridge, Canada have recently carried out a study investigating how individual <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurons<\/a> learn and make predictions about the future. Their findings, published in <i>Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i>, suggest that the ability of single neurons to predict their future activity could offer a new learning mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have been trying to understand how the brain works and how it acquires information for centuries. While neuroscientists now have a pretty good understanding of how different parts of the brain work and what their function is, many questions remain unanswered; thus, a unified neuroscience theory is still lacking. In recent years, computer scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}