Tagged: Brain technologies
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Madonna
Rakst á þetta í gömlu dóti sem ég hef sett saman í gegnum tíðina: Strange face images The brain is extremely good at recognizing human faces and is believed to have a special module or part that is responsible for analyzing faces (Carter, Rita; Frith, Christopher. (1999). Mapping the mind. Univer...
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The Brain Revolution
Once I was going to write a book. As a matter of fact I started writing a book. The subject was brain technologies from technical, philosophical, historical and futuristic standpoints. As all of my time now is devoted to developing Spurl.net further, I realized that this book is not going to be f...
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Scientific American Mind
Scientific American’s latest special issue is Scientific American Mind. It is a collection of very informative and interesting articles on the latest in brain science, philosophy of mind and brain technologies. There is a brilliant article on “idiot savants” – people that have autism or received ...
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Monkey Talk
This article discusses where monkeys’ language abilities end and the realm of humans begins. Puzzled monkeys reveal key language step – New Scientist
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Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds
An article on Brain-Computer Interfaces – Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds Wired News
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Mind Wide Open: A Book to Read
Steven Johnson‘s new book: Mind Wide Open, is finally in stock at Amazon so it should be on its way over here very soon. Johnson is the author of one of my favorite books – Emergence – and in the new book he takes a look at the human brain and what brain science can […]
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The Status of Brain-Machine Interfaces
I mentioned in the Trendwatch the other day that Popular Science has a cover article in January about Brain-Machine Interfaces. Well, the article is now online, and it is a brilliant one. Wetware has mentioned much of the research discussed in the article before (see the Brain technologies catego...
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Animal brained robots
Do you remember the “scribbling rat neurons“, Wetware wrote about a few weeks ago? In that project, neurons from a rat’s brain were used to control a robot arm, holding a pencil. To add a little dramatic effect, the “brain” and its “body” were on two different continents. While this sort of thing...
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Listening to the walls
BBC yesterday posted an article about blind people who restore rudimentary vision using a system that turns the input from a head mounted camera into sound. The result has enabled a blind woman to distinguish similar objects, roughly make out obstacles in her environment and detect whether the li...
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Note to self: Take notes
The single thing in the philosophy of mind that has surprised me the most is the importance of human language in thinking. Its importance in communication is of course quite obvious, but in the inner language we use to “talk to ourselves” its role is more open to dispute. I won’t go too far into […]
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Brain-Machine Interfaces – what? – when?
DARPA, US Department of Defense research arm, has for quite some time been running a Brain Machine Interface Program. This project first caught my attention when Technology Review wrote about Mind-Machine merger in May (subscription is required to read the full article). Brain Machine Interfaces ...
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Artistic brain or brainless artists?
A collaboration art project between the Potter Lab at Georgia Tech and SymbioticA Research Group recently grabbed the attention of the likes of Nature and Wired. The project is called MEART (official site). In short it is a robot arm that draws pencil drawings on paper, controlled by real living ...