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Distinguishing Brain From Mind
From the recent announcement of President Obama's BRAIN Initiative to the Technicolor brain scans ("This is your brain on God/love/envy etc") on magazine covers all around, neuroscience has captured the public imagination like never before. Read More »
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Jeff Hawkins: Where Open Source And Machine Learning Meet Big Data
The Palm pioneer has turned to neuroscience and big data to create a path to truly intelligent machines -- a path open to the community's contributions Read More »
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Prosthetic Hand With Feeling: Re-Creating The Brain-Hand Connection
The human hand is a wonder of strength, sensitivity and discrimination — not only because of those four fingers and the opposable thumb, but also because of the human brain that controls it. No wonder, then, that for those who design hand prostheses, re-creating the natural dexterity of the brain-powered hand is a daunting challenge. Read More »
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The Doctor Is In
I’m a little underslept today,” Dr. Francis Collins laughs, sitting in his office in the historic Building 1 of the National Institutes of Health’s sprawling campus in Bethesda, Md., where he presides as the dean of the nation’s health. [...] Read More »
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Will Obama’s New $100m Brain Mapping Project Be Open Access?
On Tuesday President Obama unveiled a new $100 million research initiative to map the human brain. Read More »
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