NEUROTECHNOLOGY

Mice taught to guide computer mouse with brain activity

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Researchers from University College London’s Sainsbury Wellcome Centre have devised a brain-machine interface (BMI) which allows mice to learn to move a cursor to a target using only their brain activity  The study sheds light on how the brain represents causally-controlled objects. When a mouse was controlling the cursor, brain activity in the higher visual … Read more

Brain’s memory inspires neural networks to be less ‘forgetful’

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Researchers say they have successfully addressed what they call a ‘major, long-standing obstacle to increasing AI capabilities’ by drawing inspiration from a human brain memory mechanism known as ‘replay’. Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst and the Baylor College of Medicine said they have developed a new method to protect – … Read more