[Verse 1]
Evarts wired a monkey's arm back in the sixties glow,
Mountcastle found the columns, Tanji taught the sequence flow,
Microelectrode whispering through cortex, thin as hair,
One neuron speaking Morse code to a listener who's there.
[Chorus]
Um neurônio, uma história, spike by spike it's true,
Cem elétrodos cantando, a hundred voices singing through,
Utah array, patch of silicon so small,
Escuta o cérebro — listen close, it's calling all.
[Verse 2]
Utah array's a bed of nails, ninety-six or one hundred strong,
Punching through the cortex gently, learning motor's silent song,
Neuropixels slide in deeper, hundreds of sites on a single shank,
Stacking neurons layer on layer, cada camada, rank by rank.
[Chorus]
Um neurônio, uma história, spike by spike it's true,
Cem elétrodos cantando, a hundred voices singing through,
Utah array, patch of silicon so small,
Escuta o cérebro — listen close, it's calling all.
[Verse 3]
Center-out reaching, the monkey's hand shoots like a compass spoke,
Delayed reach task holds the plan back, patience before the stroke,
Grasping fingers curl around a shape the fist must know,
Sequence tasks chain movements, A to B to C they go.
[Verse 4]
Sorting spikes from noisy waveforms, each neuron gets its name,
Clustering shapes upon a screen, telling one cell from the same,
Raster plot's a field of ticks, each row a trial's trace,
PSTH piles them into one average pulse, one face.
[Verse 5]
Tuning curves bend like rainbows, cosine waves across the plane,
Preferred direction whispers secrets hidden in the gain,
Population vectors gather, every neuron casts a vote,
Decoding movement from the chorus, intention kept afloat.
Latency and firing rate, the language neurons speak,
Encoding models chase the pattern science longs to seek,
From Georgopoulos' insight to the algorithms of today,
Cada avanço, um passo novo, science finding it's way.
[Bridge]
Da pulso ao vetor populacional,
From single click to dynamical, a story colossal,
This spiking data builds the bridge to BCI's embrace,
Cada neurônio, a piece of the map we trace.
[Chorus]
Um neurônio, uma história, spike by spike it's true,
Cem elétrodos cantando, a hundred voices singing through,
Neuropixels, Utah arrays, picking up the call,
Escuta o cérebro — listen close, it's calling all.
[Outro]
Evarts, Mountcastle, Tanji, voices passed along,
Raster, PSTH, sorting — keep the data strong,
Um neurônio só não basta, juntos vamos mais além,
From single cell to population — essa é a origem, sim.
[Final Chorus]
Um neurônio, uma história, spike by spike it's true,
Cem elétrodos cantando, a hundred voices singing through,
Utah array, Neuropixels, silicon so small,
Escuta o cérebro — listen close, it's calling, calling all.