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Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Same parts of the brain will light up on an FMRI «image.»

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

Brain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information ocBrain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information ocbrain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information occurs.

V: At Brookhaven [National Laboratory] I was doing these studies on cocaine abusers, and after I'd seen a number of brain images, I realized I could distinguish a cocaine abuser from a control.

According to the mri results, 38 minutes after Rennich entered the tube, an area of darkness — of no color at all — appeared on the image of his brain, indicating that the neurons in a small region of the cerebral cortex were no longer transmitting visual information.

The motion of the head increases the quality of the image available to us: The brain integrates images seen from different positions to see more detail than is projected on the retina in a single moment.

For example, knowing the precise brain activity involved could shed light on disorders in which body awareness is disrupted, such as schizophrenia, and help with the development of prosthetic limbs that are more easily incorporated into body image.

On the heels of the decade of the brain and the development of neuroimaging, it is nearly impossible to open a science magazine or walk through a bookstore without encountering images of the human brain.

Yet your brain «homes in» instantly on the correct interpretation of the image.

A study published online last November in Brain, based on the most comprehensive collection of postmortem images compiled to date, shows that Einstein's cerebral cortex, responsible for higher - level mental processes, differs much more dramatically than previously thought from that of a person of average intelligence.

Neuromania: On the Limits of Brain Science (Oxford University Press, 2011) debunks the budding idea that a study or news report accompanied by a colorful brain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technoBrain Science (Oxford University Press, 2011) debunks the budding idea that a study or news report accompanied by a colorful brain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technobrain image is more reliable than research that does not use flashy functional MRI technology.

The information about the location of the patches on the retina is extracted by the brain and produces stereopsis, even though only one eye's image is visible at a time.

Actual video images were then presented side - by - side with the computer's interpretation of what the person's brain saw based on fMRI data.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / fotokon Although cocaine makes people feel more alert and on top of things in the moment, it can leave users vulnerable to a much slower brain in the long run.

Meanwhile the influence of neuroscience on education continues to mushroom, thanks to «opportunistic marketing» and promises that can not be kept and even, in one prominent case, the fraudulent use of misleading false - color images of brain scans.

But what individual neurons are doing in the areas that light up on an fMR image is an open question, because researchers can't stick electrodes into the brains of healthy people.

Images of the tumor cells are immediately created on an LCD screen observed as the surgeon scans the instrument across the tumor or brain surface.

Light from the lit candle is reflected by the «mirror,» but our brain's tendency is to «unfold» that light, placing a virtual image of the lit candle behind the transparent plastic (and apparently right on top of the actual location of our unlit candle).

In order to understand perception, we need to first get rid of the notion that the image at the back of the eye simply gets «relayed» back to the brain to be displayed on a screen.

He plans to continue using optogenetics to pin down circuits of brain cells responsible for disease and to combine that knowledge with the colorful circuit images to home in on which wires need to go where to establish normal communication.

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

But when you have images, your brain is able to pick up on a lot of detail about an area, including whether it's low rise or high rise.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

It involves the brain's interpretation — derived from an image on the retina located at the back of the eye — to pass judgment on what is happening out there in the world.

Scientists hope the hundreds of thousands of images they produce will help them zero in on brain wiring and anatomical differences in children that develop disorders such as autism.

The researchers found that 11 of the soccer players had between 1 and 39 tiny spots on the brain that appeared brighter on the images (see arrow).

«On a normal clinical MRI scan, you typically see the structural images of the brain, and for a mild brain injury like a concussion, we aren't able to see the underlying changes we were able to see using these advanced methods.»

As he's about to leave, he notices the image on the far - left computer screen: It looks like someone has sliced his head open and imprinted a grid of green lines on his brain.

To do this it is thought that our brains put all of the pieces together and fill in blanks, or missing images, based on what we have already seen.

Unpopular peoples» brains, on the other hand, responded similarly to images of their peers regardless of those peers» social standing.

Researchers ranked the players based on heading frequency and then compared the DTI brain images of the most frequent headers with those of the remaining players.

«The brain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research DivBrain Imaging Research Division

The reason the flash was on the opposite side of the eye has to do with the way the brain processes an image.

Even healthy brains lose some cells over time, but the image on the right reveals how dramatic cell loss in the brain of an Alzheimer's victim can be.

«Images of the brain refute a theory of the 60s on the domain of language.»

A successful approach is to stretch one brain image to fit the other, trying to minimize the sum of two terms - a «penalty term» for how much stretching goes on, and a «mismatch term» for how different the two brains are after the stretching.

One of the classic images used in introductory biology and psychology courses is the motor homunculus: a deformed map of the body drawn on the primary motor cortex, showing which brain areas control different body parts.

In this image — created through high - angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI)-- the front of the brain is on the right.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

These findings, together with data reported several years ago on the treats» ability to turn on opiate receptors in the brain (SN: 10/12/96, p. 235), threaten to transform the image of chocolate from dietary vice to herbal medicine.

The image on the right indicates the level of strain on brain tissue after an actual bike crash; the image on the left shows what the strain would have been if a helmet was worn.

Recruiting luminescent nanoparticles to image brain function, scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials that could enable the mapping of the complex neural connections in the brain.

He goes on to explain that the brain subconsciously perceives the observer's own current body position while looking at the pictures, and that this influences their assessment of the image.

To assess the impact on the brain, the researchers compared the results of their simulations with CT images, in which bleeding was evident in the brains of the crash victims.

During my years at GSK I took on roles of increasing responsibility, and developed a strong background in MRI, image processing and analysis, as well as in the application of translational approaches to study neuropsychiatric brain disorders.

Brain images by Hanna Damasio will be projected during the world premiere of Self Comes to Mind, a new work by composer Bruce Adolphe, based on the work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.

We will then perform microscopy studies on the same brains and align the two sets of images.

Their image, showing six different computational visualizations of a cell membrane for a single brain cell, was featured as the cover story in a special issue of Biophysical Journal, that focuses on brain biophysics and is published by the Biophysical Society.