Archive for July 7, 2009

Your brain on the edge of chaos

Posted in Biology, External Links, Science on July 7, 2009 by Christine

No news to me. I’ve always suspected that. Now, seriously:

Though much of the time it [the brain] runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard of noise.

Neuroscientists have long suspected as much. Only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way. Now they are trying to work out why. Some believe that near-chaotic states may be crucial to memory, and could explain why some people are smarter than others.

Read whole article by the New Scientist magazine:

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

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