A matter of fine balance

How does the brain’s circuitry adjust itself to make sense of the world despite the hugely different signals it receives? Scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, believe that they have discovered the root causes of this phenomenon–called normalization–to be based on two properties of brain circuits that they have demonstrated in mouse brains.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org