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Some interesting Neuroscience

Greg Gage of Backyard Brains has turned a Longfin Inshore squid into the newest Ipod accessory by making the squid's chromatophore cells react to music. 

Backyard Brains is an organization dedicated to educating young soon-to-be scientist of our world, and showing them the joys of neuroscience by creating interesting experiments such as re-animating a severed cockroach leg and making it dance.

In the above experiment the Backyard Brains Team attached one of their "Spiker Boxes" to the squids chromatophore nerves in the fin. They then side-chained the electronic signals to an I-pod allowing the music to activate the cells in a colorful display that goes along with the music.

Now if only all labs could be this fun!

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