{"id":200859,"date":"2024-12-06T05:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/primate-study-sheds-light-on-a-neural-mechanism-that-separates-signal-from-noise-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:51:39","slug":"primate-study-sheds-light-on-a-neural-mechanism-that-separates-signal-from-noise-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/primate-study-sheds-light-on-a-neural-mechanism-that-separates-signal-from-noise-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Primate study sheds light on a neural mechanism that separates signal from noise in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/primate-study-sheds-light-on-a-neural-mechanism-that-separates-signal-from-noise-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of \u201cnoise,\u201d which is spontaneous electrical activity that comes from a resting brain. This appears to be different from brain activity that comes from sensory inputs, but just how similar\u2014or different\u2014the noise is from the signal has been a matter of debate.<\/p>\n<p>New research led by a team at the University of Tokyo further untangles the relationship between internally generated noise and stimulus-related patterns in the brain, and finds that the patterns of spontaneous activity and stimulus-evoked response are similar in lower visual areas of the cerebral cortex, but gradually become independent, or \u201corthogonal,\u201d as one moves from lower to higher visual areas.<\/p>\n<p>The findings not only enhance our understanding of the mechanism that enables the brain to distinguish between signal and noise, but could also provide clues for developing noise-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> incorporating a mechanism similar to that found in the biological brain. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54322-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of \u201cnoise,\u201d which is spontaneous electrical activity that comes from a resting brain. This appears to be different from brain activity that comes from sensory inputs, but just how similar\u2014or different\u2014the noise is from the signal has been a matter of debate. New research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200859","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}