From Angry Birds to brain mapping: The Gamification of Neuroscience

___ A Quar­ter Mil­lion Gamers Helped Build This Incred­i­bly Detailed Map of the Brain (Sin­gu­lar­i­ty­Hub): “In 2012, when Angry Birds was in its prime, Seung had an inspi­ra­tion. “What if,” he won­dered, “we could cap­ture even a small frac­tion of the men­tal effort that goes into Angry Birds (for brain map­ping)? Think of what we…

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Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) to host “brain-imaging factory” enabling large-scale, standardized data generation

_______________________ Chi­na launch­es brain-imag­ing fac­to­ry (Nature): “Neu­ro­sci­en­tists who painstak­ing­ly map the twists and turns of neur­al cir­cuit­ry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an indus­tri­al scale. A huge facil­i­ty set to open in Suzhou, Chi­na, next month should trans­form high-res­o­lu­­tion brain map­ping, its devel­op­ers say.

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