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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What Is a Sleep Spindle?

When you fall asleep, your brain goes through different stages of sleep. A sleep spindle is a very highly synchronous state when many neurons are spiking simultaneously in bursts and there's a feedback connection. And recording from just a handful of nerons, he col recorn three at the same time,. intercellarlyhe said hat there are sancrinus across the whole cortect the whole cortex, of spindling at thesame time. Well, now, with these electroote rays that cover, literally, like, in one hemisphere, what we are able to show is that it's not perfectly sancrinous, but ather, there's a circular travelling wave

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