Epic neuronal culture. #NeuroScience
Epic neuronal culture. #NeuroScience
How to Put Your Brain on the Internet: Lessons from a Cyborg. Michael Chorost discusses his book "World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet."
The Human Brain Project - talks by Karlheinz Meier
SpiNNaker: 1 million core neuromorphic platform:
Misha Mahowald: genesis of Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering workshop:
Degeneracy is the ability of elements that are structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same output, and has been shown throughout biological systems (Edelman and Gally, 2001)
Computational Approaches to Mapping and Modeling Brain Networks - Talk by Olaf Sporns:
Synthetic neural modeling applied to a real-world artifact - by Gerald Edelman et.al (1992)
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/89/15/7267.full.pdf
"The Neurosciences Institute was a unique place. The director was Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman. In addition to his work in immunology, which led to the Nobel Prize, he introduced a theory of the nervous system called Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (Edelman, 1987, 1993). The theory suggested that there was selection of neural circuits during development through synaptic pruning, and selection of groups of neurons during adulthood through reentrant connections. Important for neurorobotics was the notion of value systems to tie environmental signals to neuronal groups, which led to the selection of behaviors important for survival. Because of this linkage, or as Edelman would say, “The brain is embodied, and the body is embedded in the environment,” their group developed the Darwin series of Brain-Based Devices (Reeke et al., 1990; Edelman et al., 1992). Another phrase that drove this work, was “the world is an unlabeled place,” which meant that perceptual categories must be selected through experience, rather than supervision. These Brain-Based Devices were robots3 with large-scale neural networks controlling their behavior (Figure 2). However, these were not the feedforward input layer→hidden layers→output layer neural networks that were popular then and became the deep neural networks of today. The Brain-Based Device’s neural networks had anatomical details that resembled biological neural networks. There were sensory streams, top-down connections, long-range connections between regions that were bi-directional, as well as local lateral excitation and inhibition within brain regions."from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2018.00042/full
Interviews with Gerald Edelman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Edelman
The theory of neural Darwinism:
Putting the mind back in nature:
Conscious artifacts
Brain based device
“The brain is embodied, and the body is embedded in the environment”
- Gerald M.Edelman
Victim of the Brain - a 1988 docudrama about "the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter":
Rat brains linked to create "biological computer" (2013)
Every single cognitive bias on one chart. #NeuroScience
Can Physical Activities Improve Fluid Intelligence? Scientists link aerobic fitness with improved cognition in healthy young adults: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201312/can-physical-activities-improve-fluid-intelligence #ML #NeuroScience
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have found more evidence that physical activity is beneficial for brain health and cognition. The new study suggests that certain hormones, which are increased during exercise, may help improve memory.
Multimodal person character determination from video: #ML #NeuroScience #Economics
http://websci.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/project/prediction-of-personality-first-impressions-from-video/
"The Future of Consciousness" - new talk by Christof Koch at the "Schrödinger at 75" event:
"Brain-computer interface enables people with paralysis to control tablet devices": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181121142420.htm #NeuroScience #BCI
"Users reported it felt “more natural” than using a mouse.. type up to 8 words per min via thoughts alone"
Update on the MUSE brain-computer-interface - by Ariel Garten and Graeme Moffat
Classic Paper of the day: "An Experimental Study of Apparent Behaviour" - by Heider & Simmel (1944): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Simmel https://www.all-about-psychology.com/fritz-heider.html landmark study in interpersonal perception about the attribution process when making judgments of others. #Science #NeuroScience
Oh look, @wef is publicly talking about psychotronic warfare - fun! "Mind control using sound waves? We ask a scientist how it works": https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/mind-control-ultrasound-neuroscience #NeuroScience