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Neuron Network

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The human brain is, without a doubt, the most complicated organ that any known living being has. The billions of neurons that our brain has can, as our instructor likes to say, have more possible states than atoms in the known universe! That's a whole lot. Our project is built around this idea, and we hope to demonstrate that in a much more colorful way. Together with the girl scouts, we will construct a set of rudimentary neural networks to demonstrate how complex they can be. Ten points on each station will have ten points parallel to it, with one string from each point running to each of the other points on the other side. In the end, each group of Girl Scouts will create a colorful cobweb structure that, though overly simplified, gives a good indication about what is going on in our brains. In the end, there will be eleven of these structures. Looked at head-on, it is likely that we will see nothing but a solid block of ribbon!

Project by Stephanie Kazanas, Alex Krupka, Colin McHugh, and Robert Bahnsen for Dr. Cannon's Behavioral Neuroscience class.