Sentences with phrase «number of neurons encode»

Memory functions in the brain work according to a principle that neuroscientists call «sparse coding», i.e. a comparatively small number of neurons encode complex information — possibly to make overlap between different memories more unlikely.

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The central insight of the new work is that even though there exist an infinite number of different possible faces, our brain needs only about 200 neurons to uniquely encode any face, with each neuron encoding a specific dimension, or axis, of facial variability.