Neural Fundamentals
- The neural representation of concepts is a reverberating
circuit of neurons called a Cell Assembly.
- Most learning is done by synaptic weight change.
- There is a fair amount of neural and synaptic death.
- There is some neural and synaptic growth.
- The brain functions in circuits with areas collaborating
with other areas to get behaviour.
- A given area usually collaborates in several circuits.
- It seems basal ganglia and cingulate cortex is involved in
rules.
- 100 billion neurons.
- .15 quadrillian synapses.
- 36 billion glia.
- Adults lose 1 neuron a second.
- Fetuses gain 4,000 neurons per second.
- Cochlear nucleus has 8,800 neurons.
- 100,000,000 neurons in auditory cortex.
