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Ep310 - Greg Gage | How Your Brain Works: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone

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What's Happening to the Brain?

The neurons in our brain are responsible for sending information. So we can see that as I touch it lightly, you get a handful of them. And so, it doesn't even harder even more of those. The actual spike itself doesn't change its size. It just changes the rate at which is encoding. How does information, this works? It's not just with our eyes,. sorry, with our touch sensors, right? But we have a bunch of experiments to look at this with vision. We look at it with smells and all these other things that do As soon as it hits the photoreceptor, as soon as it hit the chemoreceptor in your nose or in your ear

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