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General · 9 March 2026

Brain Sends Precise Signals to Individual Neurons

Brain Sends Precise Signals to Individual Neurons

Understanding how brains learn and creating better AI systems could be improved by new findings. MIT researchers, led by Mark Harnett, found evidence for this in a study published February 25 in the journal Nature. Researchers trained mice to control 8 to 10 neurons with a brain-computer interface, connecting their activity to sugary rewards.

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