Some scientists think that these bursts of brain activity help young brains form the right connections between regions. (sciencenews.org)
Every second, a young child's brain forms more than 1 million new neural connections. (learningpolicyinstitute.org)
With the Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to input signals from simulated senses and nervous system. (scientificamerican.com)