{"id":173074,"date":"2023-09-29T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/brain-cells-living-on-the-edge"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:15:55","slug":"brain-cells-living-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/brain-cells-living-on-the-edge","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells living on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-cells-living-on-the-edge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paper published in Nature Communications shows that when neurons are given information about the changing world around them (task-related sensory input) it changes how they behave, putting them on edge so that tiny inputs can then set off \u2018avalanches\u2019 of brain activity, supporting a theory known as the critical brain hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, from Cortical Labs and The University of Melbourne, used DishBrain \u2013 a collection of 800,000 human neural cells learning to play Pong.<\/p>\n<p>It is the strongest evidence to date in support of a controversial theory of how the human brain processes information.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DishBrain reveals how human neurons work together to process information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper published in Nature Communications shows that when neurons are given information about the changing world around them (task-related sensory input) it changes how they behave, putting them on edge so that tiny inputs can then set off \u2018avalanches\u2019 of brain activity, supporting a theory known as the critical brain hypothesis. The researchers, from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173074","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173076,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173074\/revisions\/173076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}