a rightly timed pause

The group’s discovery helps make the case for an alternate theory of how the brain processes information. Neuroscientists have made vast leaps in understanding how neurons communicate with each other in the brain. But they are still in the dark about what the neuron-to-neuron message actually consists of and how it’s processed. Known as the “neural code,” this blueprint for the brain’s information-processing language has proved to be much more elusive than language that is encoded in our genome, which was deciphered decades ago.