Andrew Huberman· PhD
What they basically found was the sharpness, the precision of tuning of neurons in the brain, was best when subjects were fed.
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What they basically found was the sharpness, the precision of tuning of neurons in the brain, was best when subjects were fed.
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So just to cut to the chase, to give you the answer, what they found is that when subjects are well fed, neurons that responded to vertical, responded very strongly to vertical, but not very much at all to other angles, of what we call stimuli, so lines that are 10 degrees or 20 degrees off.