Sentences with phrase «mammalian brain circuitry»

«Once we start to correlate particular patterns of activity to behaviors or mental states,» says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies mammalian brain circuitry, «we will reinvent neuroscience as a field.»

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It is based on a model of the brain circuitry found in the mammalian visual system by Torsten Wiesel and the late David H. Hubel, both then at Harvard University, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (work for which they would later be awarded a Nobel Prize).

Using a powerful gene - hunting technique for the first time in mammalian brain cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a gene involved in building the circuitry that relays signals through the brain.