Neuroscience
- Hybrot Neuroart
The Animat multi-electrode array consists of 60 electrodes embedded on a glass culture dish on which thousands of cultured rat neurons spontaneously form a neural network. They interface to control a simulator for a pair of pneumatic robot arms which...
- Welcome To The Future: Cnn
CNN will air a special report on March 25 titled Welcome to the Future: The Future is in Your Grasp, which looks at progress in a number of areas including health, entertainment and technology. Among the research they're highlighting is the BrainGate...
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Sarah DeWeerdt for Nature takes a look at how cultural differences in social conventions affect the diagnosis of, and attitudes towards, people with autism. 2. The...
- New Dawn In Brain-machine Interfacing
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to bring paralysed people the ability to use thought power alone to control artificial limbs, and to interact with computers and other electrical devices. John Donoghue and colleagues implanted a tiny...
- Neural Systems Are Fluid, Even When No Learning Is Taking Place
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning - MIT News Office This seems to be the first publication confirming a property of the brain that's been widely suspected by neuroscientists for years, namely, that neurons...
Neuroscience
BCI hits Nature
A rather slack-jawed article from CNN Money, over-eager and misleading, points out that the latest implanted electrode array work by Brown-affiliated Cyberkinetics was just published in Nature:
To their lack of credit, they also mention a patent by Sony on beaming data directly into the mind using ultrasonic signals. I seem to remember that the patent was widely derided, pure patent speculation rather than something that had been designed or built. A DARPA scientist named Stu Wolf also mentions that headband-based interfaces are likely to be popular 20 years in the future. Doesn't sound farfetched to me, although EEG's got a way to go.
"If you think that's mind-blowing, try to wrap your head around the sensational research that's been done on the brain of one Matthew Nagle by scientists at Brown University and three other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.-based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published for the first time last week in the British science journal Nature..."Regrettably, they don't tell us what the basis of the publication is, since everything they mention with Nagle seems to have been done already (remote control of robot arms, learning computer/TV control, etc). Still, good to see BCI/MMI getting some prestigious and mainstream science press.
To their lack of credit, they also mention a patent by Sony on beaming data directly into the mind using ultrasonic signals. I seem to remember that the patent was widely derided, pure patent speculation rather than something that had been designed or built. A DARPA scientist named Stu Wolf also mentions that headband-based interfaces are likely to be popular 20 years in the future. Doesn't sound farfetched to me, although EEG's got a way to go.
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- Hybrot Neuroart
The Animat multi-electrode array consists of 60 electrodes embedded on a glass culture dish on which thousands of cultured rat neurons spontaneously form a neural network. They interface to control a simulator for a pair of pneumatic robot arms which...
- Welcome To The Future: Cnn
CNN will air a special report on March 25 titled Welcome to the Future: The Future is in Your Grasp, which looks at progress in a number of areas including health, entertainment and technology. Among the research they're highlighting is the BrainGate...
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Sarah DeWeerdt for Nature takes a look at how cultural differences in social conventions affect the diagnosis of, and attitudes towards, people with autism. 2. The...
- New Dawn In Brain-machine Interfacing
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to bring paralysed people the ability to use thought power alone to control artificial limbs, and to interact with computers and other electrical devices. John Donoghue and colleagues implanted a tiny...
- Neural Systems Are Fluid, Even When No Learning Is Taking Place
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning - MIT News Office This seems to be the first publication confirming a property of the brain that's been widely suspected by neuroscientists for years, namely, that neurons...