"In a paper published online July 14 in Neuron, a team led by Richard Born, HMS professor of neurobiology, and Gabriel Kreiman, HMS associate professor of ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital, reports that inactivating neurons in one part of the primate visual cortex caused this well-known variability to disappear in nearby cortical areas. The neurons in the neighboring areas remained active but now produced unusually regular spike patterns to repeated visual stimulation. When the researchers reactivated the silenced area, spiking became irregular again."
Woahhhh. Because the visual system is the canonical example of how the nervous system deals with noise.
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