Yoshua Bengio is one of the Canadian wizzes who revived the longtime
study of neural networks by creating sophisticated versions of this brain - inspired technology now used for image recognition, language understanding and playing championship go.
Not exact matches
Having
studied experimental psychology as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Hinton was enthusiastic about
neural nets, which were software constructs that took their inspiration from the way
networks of neurons in the brain were thought to work.
By
studying these examples, the
neural network learned on its own what the light signal
of an exoplanet looked like, and could then pick out the signatures
of exoplanets in previously unseen signals.
Of all the human senses, the visual system — the network that turns light into neural signals that create the perception of sight — is the most studied and best understoo
Of all the human senses, the visual system — the
network that turns light into
neural signals that create the perception
of sight — is the most studied and best understoo
of sight — is the most
studied and best understood.
«This connection between an innate call and the activity
of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution
of songbirds, the role
of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised
neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator
of the
study.
Mike Preuss, an information systems specialist and co-author
of the
study, summarizes it as follows, in a somewhat simplified way: «The deep
neural networks are used for predicting which reactions are possible with a certain molecule.
Lead author
of the
study Kirsten Weber proposes, «The enhanced activity might reflect a brain mechanism to build and strengthen a
neural network to process novel word order regularities.»
The artificial
neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be
studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human
neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort
of sketch
of how a real brain may function.»
The mammalian cerebral cortex, long thought to be a dense single interrelated tangle
of neural networks, actually has a «logical» underlying organizational principle, reveals a
study appearing Feb. 27 in the journal Cell.
«The
neural networks we tested — three publicly available
neural nets and one that we developed ourselves — were able to determine the properties
of each lens, including how its mass was distributed and how much it magnified the image
of the background galaxy,» said the
study's lead author Yashar Hezaveh, a NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at KIPAC.
As Manel del Valle, the main author
of the
study, explains: «The concept
of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array
of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum
of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial
neural networks.»
For the purpose
of the
study, Slomowitz grew a
neural network on an array
of electrodes and recorded the activity
of single individual neurons in the
network.
Exactly how the
neural networks need to be stimulated depends upon the patient's individual injury profile and is the subject
of further
studies.
Just like a set
of building blocks, the
neural network in the spinal cord is able to combine these basic patterns flexibly to suit the motor requirement,» explains
study author Simon Danner, from the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
of MedUni Vienna.
Looking deeper, Fraden
studied how a type
of neural network present in the eel, named the Central Pattern Generator, produces waves
of chemical pulses that propagate down the eel's spine to rhythmically drive swimming muscles.
«The complementary evidence
of electrocorticography, fMRI, and brain stimulation will make it possible to
study not only the effects
of brain stimulation on the local
neural networks that process face information, but also how they broadcast their information towards other regions in the brain.»
The
study, just published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, found heightened
neural activity in the brain's connector hubs during complex tasks, such as puzzles and video games, while
networks dedicated to specific functions did not need to put in extra work.
«We realized that
studying the lithium response could be used as a «molecular can - opener» to unravel the molecular pathway
of this complex disorder, that turns out not to be caused by a defect in a gene, but rather by the posttranslational regulation (phosphorylation)
of the product
of a gene — in this case, CRMP2, an intracellular protein that regulates
neural networks,» added Snyder.
As Manel del Valle, the main author
of the
study, explains to SINC: «The concept
of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array
of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum
of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial
neural networks.»
Studies of early development in fishes show that
neural networks in the brain controlling the more complex vocal and pectoral mechanisms
of social signalling among birds and mammals have their ancestral origins in a single compartment
of the hindbrain in fishes.
By inserting these proteins into the living brain, we can
study and perturb different elements
of neural circuits, giving us a picture
of how individual components function within the complex
network.
The
study also revealed that an area
of the brain called the default mode
network, which is involved in activities like daydreaming and thinking about the past and the future, shows greater
neural connectivity in meditators than nonmeditators.
However, as we have seen, brain - imaging
studies of reading indicate otherwise: Instruction appears to establish the
neural networks that support reading.
A
study conducted by the developing team
of Cardiogram app for the Apple Watch and researchers at the University
of California revealed that smartwatches like Apple's own device, Garmin, or LG models, can collect data, which when analyzed by advanced tech like
neural networks, can diagnose heart diseases with an accuracy
of 97 percent.
A new
study from Cardiogram shows that by using heart rate monitors on wearables like the Apple Watch,
neural networks can now detect whether the wearer shows early signs
of diabetes with astonishing accuracy.
Neural networks of information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging
study