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Illustration of distorted lines of different colors being pulled into a box where they are smoothed in a single multicolored line.

Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience

But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.

By Mark Humphries
23 September 2024 | 7 min read

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ADSI, leucovorin, autism registry; and more

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By Jill Adams
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One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research

We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
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