The Spike Code: Another Information-Rich Signaling System in Neurons

It's time for another paradigm change. "These findings suggest that a fundamental assumption of current theories of motor coding requires revision," as the Abstract of a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes. Neuroscientists from Emory University have uncovered another coded signaling system, this time in nerves and muscles. The paper's categories include "Computational Neuroscience" and "Information Theory."

Neurons and muscles have a strong relationship...