Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level: http://bit.ly/8OYj4V

December 25, 2009 in Science Tech
Tags: brain

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Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn, critical confirmation. Brain cell grafts do stimulate release of growth factors for neurons, regenerate or reorganize part of the brain, and restore cognitive function, in a process called neural plasticity. Study focused on the hippocampus, considered to be the seat of learning and memory. Further study is needed, especially to understand the underlying repair mechanism and the apparent starring role of growth factor in brain health.

December 11, 2009 in Science Tech
Tags: brain, transplant

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Electrodes placed directly on the surface of peoples’ brains allow them to type just by thinking of letters. ~ how exactly this will be I want to know.

December 8, 2009 in Science Tech
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Video Scenes Pulled from Peoples’ Thoughts, from brain activity. Would you post your thoughts on Youtube? Also pulling an image out of a person’s brain is a feat that is hard to believe. ~Our world as we know it might change significantly, soon and rather quickly.

December 8, 2009 in Science Tech
Tags: brain, cyborgs

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Brain of world’s best-known amnesiac mapped. Watch dissecting online live at http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php

December 4, 2009 in Science Tech
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Intel Wants Brain Implants in Customers’ Heads by 2020. Brain waves to operate computers, TV’s, phones, gadgets. YES, we are slowly becoming cyborgs. But turning brain waves into real-world tech action still requires some heavy decoding of brain activity. If scientists can translate brain waves into specific actions, there’s no reason they could not create a virtual world with a full spectrum of activity tied to those brain waves

November 24, 2009 in Web Tech
Tags: brain, computer interface, cyborgs

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Rat Brain Modelers Denounce IBM’s Cat Brain Simulation as “Shameful and Unethical” Hoax, PR stunt and a mass deception of the public. He suggested that IBM’s simulation feat does not even reach the levels of ant intelligence.

November 23, 2009 in Web Tech
Tags: AI, brain

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Intel: Sensors, chips in brains will control computers by 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse. Read and harness human brain waves. Scientists currently working on decoding human brain activity. Blood flow changes in specific areas of the brain based on what word or image someone is thinking of. People tend to show the same brain patterns for similar thoughts. Researchers are close to gaining the ability to build brain sensing technology

November 21, 2009 in Web Tech
Tags: brain, computer interface

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Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns. Simulated neurons begun spontaneously coordinating, and organizing themselves into a more complex pattern that resembles a wave. This is the beginning of the self-organizing neurological patterns that eventually, in more complex mammal brains, become personality.The researchers running Blue Brain hope that what they’re learning about the organization of neurons in the simulated rat brain will allow them to create a digital human brain within 10 years, even though that is many orders of magnitude more complex than a rat brain.

November 19, 2009 in Web Tech
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