Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...

Transformers have revolutionized deep learning, but have you ever wondered how the decoder in a transformer actually works?

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...

Third are sensory reconstruction interfaces, such as restoring hearing or vision. For patients who have lost sensory input, ...

Gray code is a systematic ordering of binary numbers in a way that each successive value differs from the previous one in ...

Neural encoding is the study of how neurons represent information with electrical activity (action potentials) at the level of individual cells or in networks of neurons. Studies of neural encoding ...

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