The Self-Organization of the Cortex
They also probed place cells (those that respond to a single location) and head direction cells, a third type of neuron that functions like a ship’s compass: each neuron fires when the animal moves in a certain direction, for example, northwest or southeast.
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Babies know if they are taken from point A to point B, then to point C, they will know how to return in a straight line from C to A—and remarkably, they do so even if they are blind from birth.
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Broca’s area projects tree structures, ideal for coding the syntax of language
⇒ Language Highways
⇒ Wernicke’s area
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