article_snippet: Study 302 neurons and 7,000 synapses are comparatively tiny compared to the 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in a human brain.
article_snippet: But it is still useful to address tricky neurological questions that would be nearly impossible to broach in our own brains.
article_snippet: The researchers also found that by changing the activity of the neurons individually, and in combination, The researchers could pinpoint each neuron’s role in generating variability.
article_snippet: By recording the activity of the neurons, the team found that there were three persistent states among the three neurons:
article_snippet: By recording the activity of the neurons, the team found that there were three persistent states among the three neurons:
article_snippet: This suggests that input from these two neurons competes with the sensory signal as the sensory signal feeds down through the network.