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Why record neurons? How does your brain work? What have we figured out, what historical path did we take to our current understanding?
2022-04-12 Neurofeedback Humans can learn very abstract reward environments. We can play the saxophone, find that applying pressure just so leads to this sound. The saxophone is a function from the space of motor neuron activations to the space of audio neuron activations. The function is quite arbitrary; we have no reason to expect the Saxophone function to look like other functions we've encountered before, like the Singing function, or the Typing function, or the Nose-Scratching function. All functions can be learned. Provide a consistent map from motor neurons to sensory neurons and the br
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