Posts Tagged ‘brain mapping’
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…
Read MoreSuzhou 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.
Read MoreStudy: Brain changes seen in cabbies who take ‘The Knowledge’
The structure of a London taxi driver’s brain changes during the gruelling process of learning the quickest way around the capital, scans reveal.
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