Professor seeks way to replicate brain patterns

When the brain processes sound, neurons – signal-firing cells – spike, and in different ways, depending on factors such as whether the sound has a high or low pitch.

Vision, smell, hearing – this kind of "dynamic sensory information" – relies on neurons firing in various patterns.

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