08 september 2008

Neuronal Music

Not what You would call a celestial symphonical masterpiece but still very interesting. Computer-generated music based on electrical recordings of brain activity during wakefulness or sleep. Those are taken from multiunit recordings of 8 neurons in cerebral cortex (Destexhe et al., J Neurosci, 1999). A given neuron was associated to a fixed tone, and every time this neuron fires, a note is emitted. The "melody" produced gives an idea about the distributed firing activity of those neurons..

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