Memories form when networks of neurons learn to fire in new patterns. Biophysicists have now put that assumption to the test by inducing synchronized firings in neurons sitting on a chip.
Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob, two biophysicists at Tel Aviv University in Israel, extracted neurons from rat embryos and grew the nerve cells on a chip equipped with 64 electrodes to detect neuron activity.
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