The brain creates distinct spaces in the cortex for each general rule and controls those patches with brain rhythms, a concept called “spatial computing.” This explains how the brain can easily sustain a consistent understanding of a process even when the specific contents keep changing.
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Holding information in mind may mean storing it among synapses miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MIT researchers have found that information is stored not by persistent neural activity, but by the pattern of the connections, or synapses, formed among neurons.
Findings support modern thought that neural networks store information by making short-term alterations to the synapses. The study sheds new light on short-term synaptic plasticity in recent memory storage.