News tagged with neural computer
Parkinson's disease: Study of live human neurons reveals the disease's genetic origins
Parkinson's disease researchers at the University at Buffalo have discovered how mutations in the parkin gene cause the disease, which afflicts at least 500,000 Americans and for which there is no cure.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Teaching machines to recognize shapes
As any parent knows, teaching a toddler to recognize objects involves trial-and-error. A child, for example, may not initially recognize a cow in a picture-book after seeing the live animal on a farm and being ...
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Dec 12, 2011 |
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How the brain strings words into sentences
(Medical Xpress) -- Distinct neural pathways are important for different aspects of language processing, researchers have discovered, studying patients with language impairments caused by neurodegenerative ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Darkness sheds light on neural computations
In order to make sense of its environment, the brain forms and maintains an internal model of the external world. A study published in the journal Science shows that neural activity recorded in darkness, uncove ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2011 |
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People are visual detectives
The house keys in a kitchen drawer full of mess. Or that one small piece of paper with notes on a table laden with other papers. In a brief glance, in a tenth of a second, people can determine if an object sought is present ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 24, 2011 |
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Study traces the neural wiring of a running mouse
(Medical Xpress) -- Cornell researchers have identified a group of spinal cord nerve cells that manages running in mice. In the process they have illuminated an interesting step in mouse evolution: When you're being chased ...
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May 12, 2011 |
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Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 05, 2011 |
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BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone
Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational BrainGate system continued to control a computer cursor accurately ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Web-crawling the brain
The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Neural networks make intelligent sensors, smarter grids
In Hollywood movies such as Terminator or I, Robot, highly intelligent computers that can learn, reason and make decisions try to take over the world.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 07, 2011 |
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UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2010 |
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I win, you lose: Brain imaging reveals how we learn from our competitors
Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 13, 2010 |
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System that controls sleep may be same for most mammals
In a novel mathematical model that reproduces sleep patterns for multiple species, an international team of researchers has demonstrated that the neural circuitry that controls the sleep/wake cycle in humans may also control ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Model to Help Patients See How to Sound Out Words
(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, speech-language pathologists have relied on a patient’s sense of hearing to improve speech sounds. A team of researchers from UT Dallas is hoping to change that by creating a new high-tech ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Weak link in Alzheimer's drug candidates
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers.
Apr 06, 2010 |
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