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·June 10, 2016·4 min read

The Primate Brain is Pre-Adapted to Face Potentially Any Situation

According to researchers, the primate brain anticipates for all new situations by creating a special kind of neural network that is pre-adapted to face any eventuality.

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·June 6, 2016·5 min read

How The Brain Merges The Senses

Researchers have proposed a computational model that could help explain multisensory integration in humans.

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·May 22, 2016·2 min read

Animal Training Techniques Teach Robots New Tricks

Researchers are using methods used for training animals to help teach robots how to perform new tasks.

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·May 18, 2016·3 min read

How Your Brain Learns to Ride the Subway

Researchers investigate how the human brain implements hierarchical structures in order to design more clever algorithms for machine learning.

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·May 17, 2016·5 min read

‘Virtual Partner’ Elicits Emotional Responses From a Human

Researchers have created a 'virtual partner' that is able to elicit emotional response from humans in real time.

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·May 11, 2016·5 min read

Crowd Augmented Cognition: Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Accelerate Learning

Researchers have designed crowdsourcing frameworks that combine the best qualities of machine learning and human intelligence, in order to allow distributed groups of workers to perform complicated cognitive tasks.

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·May 11, 2016·4 min read

Algorithms to Detect Epileptic Seizures

Researchers have developed a prediction model that can warn of an epileptic seizure up to 20 minutes in advance.

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·May 5, 2016·2 min read

Researchers Develop a Bee Model That Will Impact the Development of Aerial Robotics

Researchers have developed a computer model that shows how bees use vision to detect movement.

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·May 4, 2016·4 min read

Brains Use Statistics to Calculate Confidence and Make Decisions

Researchers report the human brain processes data to make statistical assessments that translate into confidence.

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·April 19, 2016·3 min read

Brainprints? Researchers Can Identify Your Brain Waves With 100 Percent Accuracy

Researchers find individual brains react to images differently. The differences in neural activity was enough for computer systems to identify each person's 'brainprint' with 100 percent accuracy.