The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
We even played speech sounds to rats. Rats don't care about English. Doesn't matter to them. It's not relevant to them. But if you repeatedly pair the word 'dad' or the word 'sad,' the neurons will shift to favor responding to a human saying dad, or a human saying sad.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And at first, it was just a dumb experiment repeating the one we had done with deep brain stimulation, showing we could quadruple the number of neurons that produced a response to a given tone. That's a neat laboratory curiosity, but what's it useful for? Well, let's take our time. Can we make more neurons for a low tone or a high tone? Yes, we can. Can we make neurons get faster or slower? Yes, we can.