Revealing the brain’s mysteries, one neuron at a time / Rivelando i misteri del cervello, un neurone alla volta.
Revealing the brain’s mysteries, one neuron at a time / Rivelando i misteri del cervello, un neurone alla volta. Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa+ Digitally reconstructed pyramidal neurons in the neocortex / .Neuroni piramidali ricostruiti digitalmente nella neocorteccia Source: Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne As the seat of consciousness, the brain makes humans different from all other living creatures. Although it plays a central role in defining humanity, a precise understanding of how the brain functions still elude researchers. Certain regions of the brain light up during certain activities – for example, the occipital lobe (one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex) serves as the brain's visual processor – and science has an appreciation of the anatomy and function of individual neurons. In many ways, however, the brain remains an enigma, including exactly how the brain turns
