Scientists identify a cell type in the brain that was previously ignored and it may explain why human memory has no known upper limit https://share.google/S7aNjhHeNHewBftZb
"A paper published on 23 May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences puts forward a new hypothesis about what those cells, called astrocytes, might actually be doing. The work comes from a team at MIT: lead author Leo Kozachkov, Jean-Jacques Slotine, a professor of mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences, and Dmitry Krotov of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, who is the paper’s senior author. Their claim is not that astrocytes have been misunderstood in any dramatic sense; it is the more careful suggestion that they may be doing computational work that neurons, on their own, cannot account for."
Paper
Neuron–astrocyte associative memory | PNAS https://share.google/JKkxGLozTMVfON9P2
"A paper published on 23 May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences puts forward a new hypothesis about what those cells, called astrocytes, might actually be doing. The work comes from a team at MIT: lead author Leo Kozachkov, Jean-Jacques Slotine, a professor of mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences, and Dmitry Krotov of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, who is the paper’s senior author. Their claim is not that astrocytes have been misunderstood in any dramatic sense; it is the more careful suggestion that they may be doing computational work that neurons, on their own, cannot account for."
Paper
Neuron–astrocyte associative memory | PNAS https://share.google/JKkxGLozTMVfON9P2