News tagged with brain signal

Brain-Like Computer Closer to Realization

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost since computing began, scientists and technologists have been fascinated with the idea of a computer that works similarly to the human brain. In 2008, the first "memristor" was built, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 7 | with audio podcast weblog

Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent

A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the University of Michigan.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study Shows Electrical Fields Influence Brain Activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that e ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover why we never forget how to ride a bicycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- You never forget how to ride a bicycle - and now a University of Aberdeen led team of neuroscientists has discovered why.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone (w/ Video)

New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8

Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we're listening to. But when following our own speech, a new brain study from UC ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One step closer to an artificial nerve cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Researchers locate impulse control center in brain

Impulsive behaviour can be improved with training and the improvement is marked by specific brain changes, according to a new Queen's University study.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New miniature smart chip implant to combat chronic pain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Human trials will begin in Australia next year of a new device containing tiny smart chips which is implanted in the spinal cord or other nerves in the body to block pain signals and prevent ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter -- just by thinking about it.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Thought-propelled wheelchair developed in Italy

Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Brain development may be influenced by bacteria in the gut

A team of scientists from across the globe have found that gut bacteria may influence mammalian brain development and adult behavior. The study is published in the scientific journal PNAS, and is the result of an ongoing collab ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0