News tagged with neural computer

Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 weblog

Muscle 'synergies' may be key to stroke treatment

Researchers at MIT and San Camillo Hospital in Venice, Italy, have shown that motor impairments in stroke patients can be understood as impairments in specific combinations of muscle activity, known as synergies.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strictly ballroom analysis: Computers get to know their rumba from their cha-cha-cha

Computer scientists in Taiwan have devised a neural network program that can successfully classify a computerized music file based on its beat and tempo. The system could be a boon for music archivists with large numbers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain develops motor memory for prosthetics, study finds

"Practice makes perfect" is the maxim drummed into students struggling to learn a new motor skill - be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. Stunning new research now reveals that the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Food choices evolve through information overload

Ever been so overwhelmed by a huge restaurant menu that you end up choosing an old favourite instead of trying something new?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain on a chip?

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 2

Can monkeys choose optimally when faced with noisy stimuli and unequal rewards?

Even when faced with distractions, monkeys are able to consistently choose the path of greatest reward, according to a study conducted by researchers from Princeton and Stanford Universities.

Biology /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists read minds with infrared scan

Researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference - with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5