News tagged with neural networks

Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

GABA signaling prunes back copious 'provisional' synapses during neural circuit assembly

Quite early in its development, the mammalian brain has all the raw materials on hand to forge complex neural networks. But forming the connections that make these intricate networks so exquisitely functional is a process ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tinkering with evolution: Ecological implications of modular software networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 1960s, Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel introduced what would come to be known as evolutionary programming to the nascent field of Artificial Intelligence in an attempt to produce intelligent softwa ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How do we learn to speak and read?

Do you remember how you learned to speak? Most people do not recall learning how to talk, or know how it is that they can understand others. The process involves a complex coordination of moving air from our ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researcher creates neurons that light up as they fire

In a scientific first that potentially could shed new light on how signals travel in the brain, how learning alters neural pathways, and might lead to speedier drug development, scientists at Harvard have created genetically-altered ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New insights into how humans learn to walk

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study has revealed that as humans learn to walk the two basic patterns of stepping present in the newborn remain unchanged and two new patterns are added at the toddler stage. This ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Ping-pong robots debut in China (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week some oohs and ahhs were in order as two ping-pong playing robots made their debut at Zhejiang University in China. The two robots played against each other and with humans. True, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog

Japanese scientist unveils 'thinking' robot

Robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems -- just like humans -- sound like science fiction.

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 38

Bursting neurons follow the same beat, sometimes

A simplified mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry shows that repetitious, overlapped firing of neurons can lead to the waves of overly synchronized brain activity that may cause the halting movements that are ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Speech recognition leaps forward

During Interspeech 2011, the 12th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association being held in Florence, Italy, from Aug. 28 to 31, researchers from Microsoft Research will present work that dramatically ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Good ruminations or bad ruminations in the depressed brain?

All of us, at times, ruminate or brood on a problem in order to make the best possible decision in a complex situation. But sometimes, rumination becomes unproductive or even detrimental to making good life choices. Such ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers give robot ability to learn (w/ Video)

Researchers with the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have created a robot that is capable of applying learned concepts to perform new tasks. Using a type of self-replicating neural technology ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 40 | with audio podcast weblog

Electronic tongue identifies cava wines

Researchers at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona have developed an electronic tongue which can identify different types of cava wines, thanks to a combination of sensor systems and advanced mathematical procedures. The device ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0