research news

  • Most neurons are Jacks-of-all-trades, not specialists

    A prevailing hypothesis in neuroscience is that individual neurons are selective for a function (Hirokawa et al., 2019), specialised for a particular task. However, more and more papers are published invoking differential functions and behavioural effects for the same neuron types. The categorical selectivity may not be the rule, but an exception, according to a…

    Read more →