BRAIN SCIENCE PODCAST With Ginger Campbell, MD

Discussion of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of
Connecting Brains with Machines—and How It Will Change Our
Lives, by Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD
fascinating stuff to help us understand the brain.
Podcast here:
http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/brain-machine-interfaces-bsp-78.html
Transcript here:
http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/storage/transcripts/year-5/78-brainscience-Beyond%20Boundaries.pdf
In fact, in Beyond Boundaries, Dr. Nicolelis challenges two longstanding
assumptions from twentieth-century neuroscience: one is the primacy of the
single neuron, and the other is strict localization—the idea that each part of the
cortex has a relatively fixed function. Connected with that, he also challenges the
idea that time is not important in describing brain function—
So, let’s emphasize the key lessons from these experiments: First, single neurons
can’t do anything—ensembles do(but what about this?). And single neurons can participate in multiple
ensembles simultaneously.