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Nature 456, xiii (13 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/7219xiiia; Published online 12 November 2008

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An innovative cooling device chills a brain circuit and slows birdsong.

One way to better understand how brain circuits control behaviour is to take recordings from as many individual brain cells as possible. Making single-neuron recordings in an awake animal as a behaviour unfolds is tricky, and the hard work doesn't necessarily pay off: in animals with complex brain circuits that contain mutual connections, the technique doesn't always give clear results.

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