Sentences with phrase «resulting patterns of neural activity»

In these experiments, the researchers were able to activate groups of neurons and then observe the resulting patterns of neural activity.

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To resolve this particular contradiction, we need to recall that our brains have limited attentional resources — an attentional bottleneck results because only a single pattern of neural activity can exist at a time.

These «delayed response tasks» suggest that working memory, at the level of brain cells, is the result of self - sustaining patterns of neural activity — a group of neurons starts firing when the initial information is presented and maintains that firing internally when the stimulus is no longer present until the animal acts on that information.