Category: neuroscience

  • Wetware vs. Leviathan

        Last week the future very suddenly took shape: IBM, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon announced a partnership to explore the best practices for artificial intelligence – the Partnership on AI to benefit people and society. Of course organization is sorely needed in light of the ethical questions that arise out of the self-driving…

  • False but happy memory implanted in sleeping mice – Rodent recall

    photo:  Chris Warbey via Guardian newspaper This is really interesting – animals, including humans, have a map of neurons that represent “place”.  By figuring out which neuron represented which place in a mouses brain, scientists attached an electrode to this single specific “place” neuron, and another in the reward center of the brain: Scientists have…