Recent breakthroughs in creating artificial systems that outplay humans in a diverse array of challenging games have their roots in neural networks inspired
by information processing in the brain.
Now neuroscientist Christopher I. Moore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has proposed a new theory behind the excess flow — the blood, he says, may actually be involved
in information processing in the brain.
Recordings were made in the thalamus, which is the major gateway of the information transfer between the environment and the cerebral cortex, the highest center of
information processing in the brain.