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From Angry Birds to brain mapping: The Gamification of Neuroscience

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Mouse Reti­nal Neu­rons (Type 25), per Eye­Wire Museum

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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 could do.” [Read more…] about From Angry Birds to brain map­ping: The Gam­i­fi­ca­tion of Neuroscience

Wearable brain scanners to enable broader, easier, cheaper access to neuroimaging

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Cred­it: Uni­ver­si­ty of Nottingham

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This Brain Scan­ner Is Way Small­er Than fMRI but Some­how 1,000% Creepi­er (Giz­mo­do):

“It may look like some­thing befit­ting Halloween’s Michael Myers, but the device pic­tured above is actu­al­ly a break­through in neuroscience—a portable, wear­able brain scan­ner that can mon­i­tor neur­al activ­i­ty while a per­son is mov­ing [Read more…] about Wear­able brain scan­ners to enable broad­er, eas­i­er, cheap­er access to neuroimaging

Understanding the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”

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From Macro to Micro: A Visu­al Guide to the Brain (IEEE Spectrum)

In the human brain, high­er-lev­el infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing occurs in the neo­cor­tex, neur­al tis­sue that forms the out­er lay­er of the cere­bral cor­tex. In its intri­cate folds, brain cells work togeth­er to inter­pret sen­so­ry infor­ma­tion and to form thoughts and plans. The neo­cor­tex is divid­ed into regions that take the lead on dif­fer­ent types of pro­cess­ing. How­ev­er, much of today’s neu­ro­science research focus­es on map­ping the con­nec­tome: the neur­al con­nec­tions between regions…Keep Read­ing Arti­cle.

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7 ways in which the Human Connectome Project is moving the brain research needle

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The Human Con­nec­tome Project: Progress and Prospects (Cere­brum):

“Under­stand­ing the human brain in health and dis­ease rep­re­sents a grand sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenge for the 21st cen­tu­ry and beyond. How does a col­lec­tion of 90 bil­lion neu­rons inter­con­nect­ed by 150 tril­lion synaps­es give rise to the extra­or­di­nary capa­bil­i­ties of human behav­ior and the amaz­ing diver­si­ty of tal­ents among the bil­lions of peo­ple pop­u­lat­ing our earth?” Keep read­ing The Human Con­nec­tome Project: Progress and Prospects over at the Dana Foun­da­tion website.

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A new era of brain cartography, powered by neuroimaging and machine learning

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-- M GLASSER, D VAN ESSEN/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
– M GLASSER, D VAN ESSEN/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Human brain mapped in unprece­dent­ed detail (Nature):

“Think of a spin­ning globe and the patch­work of coun­tries it depicts: such maps help us to under­stand where we are, and that nations dif­fer from one anoth­er. Now, neu­ro­sci­en­tists have chart­ed an equiv­a­lent map of the brain’s out­er­most lay­er — the cere­bral cor­tex — sub­di­vid­ing each hemi­sphere’s moun­tain- and val­ley-like folds into [Read more…] about A new era of brain car­tog­ra­phy, pow­ered by neu­roimag­ing and machine learning

Scanning healthy brains to understand and enhance our minds

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myelinbrainThe Brain, in Exquis­ite Detail (The New York Times):

  • “Each of the 1,200 sub­jects whose brain data will form the final data­base will spend a good 10 hours over two days being scanned and doing oth­er tests. The sci­en­tists and tech­ni­cians will then spend at least anoth­er 10 hours ana­lyz­ing and stor­ing each person’s data to build some­thing that neu­ro­science does not yet have: a base­line data­base for struc­ture and activ­i­ty in a healthy brain that can be cross-ref­er­enced with per­son­al­i­ty traits, cog­ni­tive skills and genet­ics. And it will be online, in an inter­ac­tive map avail­able to all…The data­base and brain map are a part of the Human Con­nec­tome Project, a rough­ly $40 mil­lion five-year effort sup­port­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health…She said the cen­tral ques­tion the data might help answer was, “How do dif­fer­ences between you and me, and how our brains are wired up, relate to dif­fer­ences in our behav­iors, our thoughts, our emo­tions, our feel­ings, our experiences?”

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