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Electric fields could organize neural activity trial by trial during memory tasks

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Electric fields could organize neural activity trial by trial during memory tasks
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It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is the same. A new study shows that a lot of ongoing fluctuations in the brain's activity can be explained by the influence local electric fields exert on the neurons, a phenomenon called ephaptic coupling.

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