The secret to human cognition might lie in the complex computing power of individual brain cells

A recent study published in the <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533168123" target="_blank">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a></em> suggests that individual cells in the human brain possess significantly greater computational power than those found in other mammals. By applying artificial intelligence to model these brain cells, scientists found that human neurons are highly sophisticated information-processing units on their own. These findings provide evidence that the unique cognitive abilities of humans might stem from the complex structure and function of individual cells, rather than just the vast number of cells in the brain network.