Science
Inside the mind of an animal – Nature.com
Neuroscientists are scrutinizing huge piles of data to learn how brains create emotions and other internal states such as aggression and desire.
Two years ago, Jennifer Li and Drew Robson were trawling through terabytes of data from a zebrafish-brain experiment when they came across a handful of cells that seemed to be psychic.
The two neuroscientists had planned to map brain activity while zebrafish larvae were hunting for food, and to see how the neural chatter changed. It was their first major test of a technological platform they had built at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The platform allowed them to view every cel…
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