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Math Shows How Brain Stays Stable Amid Internal Noise and a Widely Varying World

from Picower Institute at MIT via ScienceDaily

Math Shows How Brain Stays Stable Amid Internal Noise and a Widely Varying World Picower Institute at MIT via ScienceDaily Whether you are playing Go in a park amid chirping birds, a gentle breeze and kids playing catch nearby or you are playing in a den with a ticking clock on a bookcase and a purring cat on the sofa, if the game situation is identical and clear, your next move likely would be, too, regardless of those different conditions. You'll still play the same next move despite a wide range of internal feelings or even if a few neurons here and there are just being a little erratic. How does the brain overcome unpredictable and varying disturbances to produce reliable and stable computations? A new study by MIT neuroscientists provides a mathematical model showing how such stability inherently arises from several known biological mechanisms. READ MORE

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