News tagged with neural computer

Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search

(PhysOrg.com) -- Always on the cutting edge of new computing technologies, Google has recently announced that it is investigating the use of quantum computing schemes to achieve faster image recognition rates. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 4 weblog

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

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

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

BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone

Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational BrainGate system continued to control a computer cursor accurately ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | 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

I win, you lose: Brain imaging reveals how we learn from our competitors

Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weak link in Alzheimer's drug candidates

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover weak link in Alzheimer's drug candidates

Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Songbirds provide insight into speech production (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of a little singing bird, Penn State physicists are gaining insight into how the human brain functions, which may lead to a better understanding of complex vocal behavior, human ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bio-inspired computer networks self-organise and learn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful computers made up of physically separate modules, self-organising networks, and computing inspired by biological systems are three hot research topics coming together in one European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rain or Shine? Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities-as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

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