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Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network
Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network . Nature . 2010 Jan 20; Authors: Doeller CF, Barry C, Burgess N Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex of freely moving rats provide a strikingly periodic representation of self-location which is indicative of very specific computational me... Read more ...
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Open Source Eye-Tracker
Via Mauro Cherubini's blog The Gaze Group at the IT University of Copenhagen is developing an open-source eye-tracking application that will provide a low-cost alternative to commercial gaze tracking systems. The ITU Gaze Tracker is video-based and ... Read more ...
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New Science 2.0 group on Linkedin
I have created a new group on Science 2.0 on Linkedin. The goal of the community is to connect researchers, consultants and companies and institutions interested in the impact of social media and web 2.0 tools on science and technology. The community is growing beyond my expectation... Read more ...
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Nature Precedings
Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by our professional curation team for relevance and ... Read more ...
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Google: Free Database Storage for Scientists
Via Medgadget The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will... Read more ...
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The neuroscience of collecting
My friend and science journalist Pierangelo Garzia has written an interesting piece on the neuroscientific basis of collecting that will appear soon in the Cartier Art Magazine, "Collectors". Here is the abstract: Recent studies in neuroscience have demonstrated that c... Read more ...
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Novel brain-scanning technology invented
Researchers from Siemens have developed a prototype MRI scanner that uses a lattice of small coils positioned around the head rather than large coils you lie inside. As noted in this Technology Review article , the device is likely to have important applications in functional magnetic reson... Read more ...
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IQR simulator for large scale neural systems
Via Neurobot Ulysses Bernardet from the Institute of Neuroinformatics University ETH Zurich has developed IQR, an efficient graphical environment to design large-scale multi-level neuronal systems that can control real-world devices - robots in the broader sense - in real-time. IQR... Read more ...
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Scientists claim first in using brain scans to...
Via kurzweilAI.net Researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity - in this case, adding versus subtracting. Read the full story Read more ...
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Action Video Games Sharpen Vision 20 Percent
From Medgadget According to researchers at University of Rochester , video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision: Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few... Read more ...