Researchers have investigated how highly organized patterns of neural activity emerge during development.
, an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies investigated how highly organized patterns of neural activity emerge during development. They found the cortex of the brain can transform unorganized inputs into highly organized patterns of activity -- demonstrating self-organization.
"Our results suggest that neural activity patterns in the early cortex arise dynamically through feedback loops that involve a balance between local activation and lateral suppression, confirming a theoretical hypothesis of brain development dating back decades," said Matthias Kaschube, PhD, professor at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and co-investigator of the study.
Ongoing research is exploring how alterations in these self-organized neural activity patterns early in development impact sensory perception later in development.
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