Neurons can carry more than one signal at a time
Duke Today: Back in the early days of telecommunications, engineers devised a clever way to send multiple telephone calls through a single wire at the same time. Called time-division multiplexing, this technique rapidly switches between sending pieces of each message. New research from Duke University shows that neurons in the brain may be capable of a similar strategy. In an experiment examining how monkeys respond to sound, a team of neuroscientists and statisticians found that a single neuron can encode…