To achieve this sort of mind reading, scientists would have to compile a «dictionary» for translating specific
neural patterns into specific memories, perceptions, and thoughts.
Not exact matches
If researchers feed enough images of cats
into these
neural networks, they learn to recognize
patterns in those images so they can eventually spot felines in photos without human help.
With deep learning, researchers can feed huge amounts of data
into software systems called
neural nets that learn to recognize
patterns within the vast information faster than humans.
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
Downloading lessons
into the brain might sound like sci - fi, but technology that activates
neural patterns might soon help us practice while asleep.
Those
neural signaling
patterns, in Pitkow and Angelaki's description, are then recoded
into another set of
patterns; that process sorts out the important variables in the environment from those that don't matter.
By subtly tweaking the
pattern on the shell of a model turtle, Andrew Ilyas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues tricked a
neural network
into misidentifying it as a rifle.
«Using the 5D colorimetric technique, these huge datasets are transformed
into a series of color - coded dynamic
patterns that actually reveal the
neural choreography completely,» said Kelso.
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.
Emily Gabranski: The neuropeptide myosuppressin functions as a cotransmitter to reconfigure two
neural networks
into a single
pattern generator
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated a
neural prosthetic system that can improve a memory by «writing» information «codes» (based on a patient's specific memory
patterns)
into the hippocampus of human subjects via an electrode implanted in the hippocampus (a part of the brain involved in making new memories).
Learning is consolidated
into related
patterns, connected in
neural networks of long - term conceptual memory, and available for retrieval and transfer to solve future problems and investigate new ideas.