The Primate Brain is 'Pre-Adapted' to Face Potentially Any Situation (IMAGE)

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The Primate Brain is 'Pre-Adapted' to Face Potentially Any Situation

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Scientists have shown how the brain anticipates all of the new situations that it may encounter in a lifetime by creating a special kind of neural network that is "pre-adapted" to face any eventuality. This emerges from a new neuroscience study published in PLOS Computational Biology.

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