Musing
by Leone Lund
Title
Musing
Artist
Leone Lund
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Black Capped Chickadee. Some interesting info from Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "Imagine replacing obsolete memories with new information—erasing old song lyrics, outdated phone numbers, and useless facts, to make room for what you need to remember now. Through a process known as neuronal replacement, chickadees and some other birds do just about exactly this.
Once a neuron contains a long-term memory, it is permanently altered, no longer able to be used in circuits involved in new memory formation. Long-lived, small birds apparently allow neurons containing old information to die, replacing them with new neurons so they can adapt to changes in their social flocks and environment even with their tiny brains."
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January 12th, 2014
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