Good point! There are other techniques that allow researchers to record directly from cells in real time. However I believe this is also limited because it gives a skewed perspective of only the patterns of activations of those bunch of cells, what about the other hundreds of thousands of cells that are simultaneously being activated. Hopefully one day technology will allow for the real time recording of everything that is going on in the brain, this task probably much easier said than done.
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Good point! There are
Good point! There are other techniques that allow researchers to record directly from cells in real time. However I believe this is also limited because it gives a skewed perspective of only the patterns of activations of those bunch of cells, what about the other hundreds of thousands of cells that are simultaneously being activated. Hopefully one day technology will allow for the real time recording of everything that is going on in the brain, this task probably much easier said than done.