An MIT team led by Institute Professor Ann Graybiel has found groups of neurons in the primate brain that code time with extreme precision.
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Time-keeping Brain Neurons Discovered - 3 views
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The neurons are located in the prefrontal cortex and the striatum, both of which play important roles in learning, movement and thought control.
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The research team trained two macaque monkeys to perform a simple eye-movement task. After receiving the "go" signal, the monkeys were free to perform the task at their own speed. The researchers found neurons that consistently fired at specific times -- 100 milliseconds, 110 milliseconds, 150 milliseconds and so on -- after the "go" signal.
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Its would be difficult, if neurons of that kind have not be discovered. Obliviously, we have millions of it in our brains. For make time-keeping neurons we need (in simplest case) only 2 neurons with reciprocal connections. More units in circle - more time to delay - more time to "keep". Also, not single "time keeping neurons" but time keeping circles. Such clear understating of processes on neuronal level is completely impossible without Brainbug play experience. Think about it!
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