Friday, March 23, 2012

Rhythm of the senses

The way information flows through the brain mediates the way we perceive the world. And an important property of information transmission is rhythm. Like a metronome, nerve cells in the brain display rhythmic activity. If one area changes it’s beat, in response to variations in external conditions, other areas adapt by changing their beat as well. This helps explains how perception changes faster than nerve signals change pathways [ link ].

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