1.   Cowan set up a mathematical equation that represented the neural activity, and built lateral inhibition into it.

2.   However, because there is still some inhibition the neural activity stabilises as adjacent areas of excited and inhibited cells.

3.   Inhibitory interconnections are very important for preserving stability in neural activity.

4.   Periodic neural activity is a normal behavior.

5.   We think the inhibition is part of an inhibitory surround that helps focus neural activity in the dominant hemisphere.

6.   As visual images register in the brain, the blood-oxygen level rises, just as the neural activity increases.

7.   But advances in neuroscience and computer engineering have made it possible to develop implanted circuits that mimic neural activities, he said.

8.   Depending on the frequency of the field, the current can either silence or amplify neural activity.

9.   In the womb, waves of neural activity sweep across the fetal retinas, as if the nervous system is rehearsing for vision by running test patterns across them.

10.   It is conceivable, although still enormously hard, to move a cursor through some kind of neural activity.