Tag: neurons
Though computers are fast and getting faster, processors are still far from competing with the human brain. Computer chips usually only send or receive a signal from one place at a time. This is radically different from neurons in the brain that are connected to hundreds of others, and send and receive many messages simultaneously. […]
Philadelphia neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn brings us these elegant metallic prints of neurons, done entirely from memory (kind of meta, no?). After earning his Ph.D., Dunn was fed up with the strict adherence to fact that dictated his grad school experience, so he decided to channel his passion for neuroanatomy towards something more creatively flexible. Inspired […]
