How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world (without being thrown into chaos)

How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world (without being thrown into chaos)

Every day our brains strive to optimize a trade-off: With lots of things happening around us even as we also harbor many internal drives and memories, somehow our thoughts must be flexible yet focused enough to guide everything we have to do. In a new paper in Neuron, a team of neuroscientists describes how the … Read more