The study of the brain - or rather, of certain parts of it - has long been one of the most interesting and priority areas in modern neuroscience in all its diversity. So the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, together with their colleagues from Pittsburgh University, conducted a very interesting and unusual experiment, whose main goal was to find out whether the brain really reconfigured itself during the learning process to something new. The results were very interesting for researchers and were placed in a separate article of the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience.

Specialists selected for the experiment several people who, using a special neurocomputer interface, had to control the mouse cursor on the computer screen. This interface allows you to measure the degree of activity of neurons in the brain and potentially detect some features. First, experts noticed that more precise cursor control with the help of the interface becomes possible only after a certain time of learning this process, and secondly, they established that the brain really reconfigures itself, but not in the direction that was thought of earlier.

The fact is that the efficiency of the work of neural connections in the brain decreases with the passage of time of training, which was registered with the help of a neural interface.

However, not everything is so bad and unambiguous, because, on the one hand, it allows increasing the effectiveness of short-term training, but on the other - it worsens the work of training for a longer period.

Such interesting results became the basis for the repeated testing of the experiment - however, experts note that it is possible that the results will be different if the duration of the training is increased. However, even so, the theory of reconfiguration of neurons is confirmed, although there still remains many aspects and features that merit further investigation.

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