As they get older, nerve cells involved in vision become less choosy about what turns them on. John Whitfield explains how this hinders the brain's attempts to make sense of the world.
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Schmolesky,M. T., Wang, Y., Pu, M. & Leventhal, A. G. Degradation of stimulus selectivity of visual cortical cells in senescent rhesus monkeys. Nature Neuroscience 3, 384 - 390 2000.
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Whitfield, J. Does not compute. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000323-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000323-4
