News tagged with brain networks

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

What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and Fantasy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. We know that characters in novels and movies are fictitious, and we also understand that historical figures - even if ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 24 feature

Japan scientists hope slime holds intelligence key

A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter

New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Activity of a single brain cell can predict if we spend or save

(PhysOrg.com) -- By eavesdropping on the activity of a single brain cell, Yale University researchers can predict the outcome of decisions such as whether you will dip into your retirement account to buy a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Structure deep within the brain may contribute to a rich, varied social life

Scientists have discovered that the amygdala, a small almond shaped structure deep within the temporal lobe, is important to a rich and varied social life among humans. The finding was published this week in a new study ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 26, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Stress make women social and men antisocial

(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies by scientists at the University of Southern California have found that while stress may result in a universal physiological "fight or flight response" there are gender differences in psychological ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 4

Ego City: Cities organized like human brains

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Computer scientists form mathematical formulation of the brain's neural networks

As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the electronic age, they still quest ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Gene regulatory networks in the bee brain linked to behavior

A new study reveals that distinct networks of genes in the honey bee brain contribute to specific behaviors, such as foraging or aggression, researchers report.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify neuron types that mediate different behavioral states

In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Florida Institute have provided one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the detailed architecture of individual functionally characterized neurons in the cerebral ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What does Twitter have to do with the human brain?

(PhysOrg.com) -- We like to think the human brain is special, something different from other brains and information processing systems, but a Cambridge professor is set to test that assumption – by conducting ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Web-crawling the brain

The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Better brain wiring linked to family genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- How well our brain functions is largely based on our family’s genetic makeup, according to a University of Melbourne led study.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast