What are neural networks doing when the brain is at rest? It turns out that in primates, even under conditions of deep anaesthesia, some of these networks undergo highly organized patterns of activity.
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Pinsk, M., Kastner, S. Unconscious networking. Nature 447, 46–47 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447046a
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