Researchers found mice have special neurons that sense disturbances to their fur, causing them to shake and groom themselves when wet.
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My guess is that shaking dry is most effective if done at a speed too fast for normal motor control, so there’s a dedicated neural circuit that bypasses the motor cortex.
Doesn’t everything we do have “special neurons”. Isn’t that what neurons are for? Isn’t the fact that neurons trigger this behaviour entirely not special?
I think they mean ‘special’ like ‘dedicated’. There are neurons dedicated to this job. They are special amongst other neurons.
Mice have something like 70 million neurons in their brain. They’re not exactly engaging in abstract thought. Everything a mouse does easily has hundreds of thousands of dedicated neurons…
Just seems like the usual pop sci sensational title nonsense…
