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• Growing Neural Implants

  Conductive polymer coatings that weave their way into implanted tissue might one day improve the performance of medical implants, such as cochlear implants and brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson's disease. In early studies, neural interfaces Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:11 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: brain implants, Neuroscience, Neural interfaces

• Exploring The Mechanics Of Judgment, Beliefs: Technique Images Brain Activity When We Think Of Others

  How do we know what other people are thinking? How do we judge them, and what happens in our brains when we do? MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe is tackling those tough questions and many others. Her goal is no less than understanding how the brain gives Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:26 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Morality, cognition

• Cable Driven Robot Assists Patients With Neurological Disorders

  Florida Atlantic University has filed a provisional patent for a unique robotic device to assist with the physical rehabilitation process of patients suffering from neurological damages to their upper extremities such as those due to stroke or Parkinson’s Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 10:52 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Robotic surgery

• Cyborgs, Science Rock Stars and Seoul

  I just flew back Seoul where I attended the World Science Forum: Brain Power , an event sponsored by the S. Korean government. The new president , Lee Myung-bak ,spoke at the opening ceremony and reminded us his country now has the tenth strongest economy Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 4:15 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Korea

• Russians to operate computers by power of thought

  The scientists of the Russian Southern Federal University won 750,000 dollars award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control. For the next 18 months Rostov scientists together with their Taganrog and Saint Petersburg colleagues Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:50 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: brain computer interface, Neuroscience, Computer interfaces, Cyborgs

• The Easy Way To Boost Your Brain

  Manchester Metropolitan University researchers have found in an experiment that subjects who moved their eyes from to side remembered 10 per cent more words than the others and reduced false memory of words. ... Read more
  Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:21 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, Neuroscience, Memory, Intelligence augmentation

• Leading theory of neural coding questioned

  The validity of a leading theory -- that electrical signals generate spiked patterns that encode different types of cognitive information -- has just been called into question by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. Their ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:42 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Neurobiology

• A quiet death for bold project to map the mind

  DARPA has killed the BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) project to reverse-engineer the human brain. The brain effort linked experts from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, robotics and artificial intelligence, who wanted to rep... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 12:52 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Neurobiology, DARPA

• Scientists claim first in using brain scans to predict intentions

  Researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity -- in this case, adding versus subtracting. The researchers inferred t... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 11:52 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Neurobiology

• Brain works more chaotically than previously thought

  The brain appears to process information more chaotically than has long been assumed. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by scientists at th... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:57 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Neurobiology