The fundamental unit of the brain is the neuron, and the computational essence of a neuron is adding up blips from neurons it listens to then “deciding” whether to issue…
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The Impossibly Incongruous Cursor Control Task
The canonical mind-control task is to operate a thought mediated computer cursor to hit targets on a screen (that’s true for brain-computer interfaces anyway, but maybe not for Jedi). The…
How Does the Bladder “Decide” When to Pee?
The lower urinary tract is orchestrated by an intricate web of harmonizing reflexes that act constructively to help you pee effectively (or to not pee effectively). [See Fowler and de…
How Much Pee is Left Inside? (Techniques for Basic Science Urology)
The most natural way to test how well the bladder and lower urinary tract (LUT) are working is to monitor what it does with urine in a process called cystometry…