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August 14, 2014
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New neurotechnologies can help researchers answer fundamental questions about how the brain works.
New technologies can enable researchers to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from the activity of brain circuits. This image shows nerve cells in the brain of a songbird that are associated with learning and producing birdsongs.
Credit: Vamsi Daliparthi and Todd Roberts, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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