Real neurons are noisy: Can neural implants figure that out?

ScienceDaily
Sep 15, 2020, 1:31 pm151 pts
Signals sent from the retina to the brain have a lot of background noise, yet we see the world clearly. Researchers show that to achieve visual clarity the brain must accurately measure how this noise is distributed across neurons when processing the signals sent down the optic nerve. These results are likely…

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