By jonknee
Except that’s not how it reads:
> The quiet neurons might be doing more than refining perceptions. Though they spike infrequently, we know from intracellular recordings that they still receive inputs from other neurons, which causes their membrane voltages to fluctuate. The sum of these fluctuations and spikes constitute what’s commonly known as brain waves. Over the past 15 years scientists have begun to amass evidence that these brain waves play an active role in information processing, shunting some neural inputs while enhancing others, for example, or altering the timing of spikes. This suggests that spikes are not the sole information-carrying signal in the brain, and that, in turn, the “inactive” neurons are doing much more than it seems.
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