In his latest book, Adam Piore explores how bioengineers are harnessing the latest technologies to unlock untapped abilities in the human body and mind, like translating
neural brain patterns of thoughts into written words
Not exact matches
Therefore, the
brain wave
pattern reflecting a novel idea should deviate from concurrent
neural impulse
patterns.
The straightforward experimental implication is that the correlation between
brain wave
patterns and
neural impulse
patterns should be lower when a person is engaged in creative thought than when engaged in routine activity like adding numbers.14
For instance, suppose that experiment after experiment showed that
brain wave
patterns deviate most from
patterns of
neural activity when people are making what look like free choices.
Compared with infants born full term, the late preterm
brain has lower
brain volume and less distinct
patterns of
neural connectivity.
Artificial
neural networks, computer programs that mimic the human
brain, are great at learning
patterns...
Artificial
neural networks, computer programs that mimic the human
brain, are great at learning
patterns and sequences, but so far they've been limited in their ability to solve complex reasoning problems that require storing and manipulating lots of data.
In a study published in June in Psychological Science, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common
brain - activation
patterns and that these
patterns are everyday
neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract science.
The team thinks that reproducibility — the replication of similar
neural patterns in the
brain each time it becomes conscious of the same sensory input — gives us clues as to what consciousness is.
The researchers found that the
brain is constrained to take
neural activity
patterns it already knows and use them for the new task.
«When faced with a new task, we're finding that the
brain is constrained to take the
neural activity
patterns that it's capable of generating right now and use them as effectively as possible in this new task.»
A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic
patterns can be represented by
neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the
brain for the perception of sound.
Downloading lessons into the
brain might sound like sci - fi, but technology that activates
neural patterns might soon help us practice while asleep.
A team of researchers from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether
neural activity
patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level of scents in the insect
brain.
The technology, part of an 18 - month, $ 2.4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) undertaking, relies on electroencephalography (EEG) to detect the cascade of
neural firing
patterns in your
brain when you spot something novel or interesting, even if you're unaware of it.
Understanding how the
brain generates these
neural codes can lead to the development of state - of - the - art
neural prosthetic devices, more closely imitating the
neural coding
patterns normally used by the
brain.
They compared the resulting gene expression
patterns in all the parrot
brains with
neural tracing experiments in budgerigars.
To resolve this particular contradiction, we need to recall that our
brains have limited attentional resources — an attentional bottleneck results because only a single
pattern of
neural activity can exist at a time.
For example,
neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic
patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other
brain disorders.
A deep convolutional
neural network (DCNN), modeled after
brain structure, employs multiple hidden layers and
patterns to classify images.
The analysis allowed the researchers to identify and isolate the specific
patterns of
neural activity that play out in this part of the
brain when someone speaks, effectively enabling them to decode the
brain's signals.
In an earlier study, Dyer discovered that hand motion directions corresponded with reliable
neural signaling
patterns in the
brain's motor neocortex.
Through the multiple trials, they confirmed that the spintronic devices have a learning ability with which the developed artificial
neural network can successfully associate memorized
patterns from their input noisy versions just like the human
brain can.
Brain Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different
patterns of
neural activity.
«It makes sense that the
brain would mimic the feeling of reward it gets from an enjoyable experience by producing the corresponding
pattern of
neural activity.
In contrast, the Stanford team's
neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent signals to one another in coordinated
patterns — just as they would in a
brain.
«If the
brain's
neural - activity
patterns are in overdrive, as is often the case for people with addiction or OCD, could we create a computer program that can help to retrain their
brains and downshift this activity?»
«After repeated attempts, your
brain gets better at recreating that
pattern of
neural activity, and you get better at the game.»
«We are exploring this through modelling information processing in parts of the insect
brain, and we find that often, exceedingly difficult tasks, for example in visual
pattern recognition or floral scent learning, can be solved with extremely simple
neural circuits.
In this study they measured phase response curves from a computer simulation of
brain activity, predicted what stimulus
patterns would suppress the
neural oscillations, and then demonstrated that the stimulation
patterns predicted to suppress the oscillations were in fact effective.
Studies suggest that computer models called
neural networks may learn to recognize
patterns in data using the same algorithms as the human
brain
An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the
brain «reads» or decodes a sentence in English or Portuguese, its
neural activation
patterns are the same.
This image compares the
neural activation
patterns between images from the participants»
brains when reading «O eleitor foi ao protesto» (observed image) and the computational model's prediction for «The voter went to the protest» (predicted image).
Although the
brain or
brain stem acts as the command center, it is the
neural networks in the spinal cord that actually generate the complex motor
patterns.
THE
brain has such fine control over the muscles used to speak that every sound produces a different
pattern of
neural activity.
They speculate that the correlation could have something to do with the
patterns of
neural activity surrounding the amygdala, the seat of fear in the
brain.
«It is known from previous studies in animals that the active
neural pattern during a certain experience is reactivated once this experience ends, so the idea was to observe in a group of volunteers what happened at the
brain level when a certain episode ended,» explains researcher Ignacio Soles.
Much as you can infer the existence of a motorway from an aeroplane at night by studying the
pattern of lights below, neuroscientists can now map
neural connections from the water traffic in the
brain.
To determine which
neural recordings corresponded to the «ignored» and «attended» speech, the team reconstructed speech
patterns from the
brain's electrical activity using a mathematical model.
Greene could then peel away the
brain's general decision - making circuits and focus in on the
neural patterns that differentiate personal from impersonal thought.
The
neural fingerprint of each song on participants»
brain was captured by the MR machine while a computer was learning to identify the
brain patterns elicited by each musical piece.
Similar to the way neurons are connected in the
brain,
neural nets stitch together tiny programs that collaboratively find
patterns in data.
Of all the
patterns of
neural activity that could produce a given movement, the
brain must pick one, and this «choice» may be illuminating regarding the basic principles at play.
These «delayed response tasks» suggest that working memory, at the level of
brain cells, is the result of self - sustaining
patterns of
neural activity — a group of neurons starts firing when the initial information is presented and maintains that firing internally when the stimulus is no longer present until the animal acts on that information.
They give animals a specific stimulus — a
pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the
brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how
neural activity depends upon the stimulus.
(The same
pattern of results was obtained when weighting each ROI equally, rather than in proportion to volume as described in Supplementary Note 3, or when
neural response similarities were not normalized across subjects for each
brain region prior to analysis, as described in Supplementary Note 2.)
The
brain's basic functions — such as planning, decision - making, and behavior — require multiple
brain areas and many thousands or millions of neurons, generating complex
patterns of
neural activity.
However,
neural activity
patterns associated with working memory are distributed across many
brain regions.
In addition, workers exposed to 46 °C heat also exhibited Acks expression
patterns similar to those observed in the
brains of workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball, suggesting that the
neural activity observed in the
brains of workers involved in the hot defensive bee ball mainly reflects thermal stimuli processing.
The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common
brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the
brain's blood supply appears to rely on a
pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these
neural stem cells.