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Researchers discover novel computational principle based on oscillatory brain dynamics

Learning to see better
The quick flash of an image on the retina sends millions of neurons in the primary visual cortex to work. Their job is to segment and filter visual information to produce an accurate and useful representation of what the eye sees. A recent publication from scientists at the ESI now shows that the responses of these neurons become more accurate for stimuli they see more often.

Neurons that sync together link together
Neurons that fire together wire together is a famous phrase to describe how the brain adjusts connections between its neurons. And while this certainly is at the heart of how the brain learns, it might be only part of the story. A new study, co-authored by ESI scientist Wolf Singer, provides evidence that neural plasticity as we know it, is gated by a higher order mechanism that depends on synchronized activity of local networks.