What you will see in the pictures below, the maze of colors, networks and connections, wiring is not a sophisticated computer, but a scan of a fragment of the cerebral cortex a mouse, with billions of synapses. As we mentioned when talking connectomics project, scientists are trying to map the brain wiring, but the task is even more complex than expected.
Stephen Smith, one of the authors of the study, summed it up this week in the journal Neuron: A synapse, by itself, is more like Microprocessor - with memory storage and processing of information - a simple on / off mechanism. In fact, a synapse may contain the order of 1,000 connections at the molecular level. A single human brain has more connections than all the computers and routers and Internet connections of the Earth.
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