Science Daily March 3, 2020 A team of researchers in the US (Texas A&M, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) demonstrated that β′-CuxV2O5 exhibits a pronounced nonlinear response to applied temperature, voltage, and current, and the response can be modulated as a function of Cu stoichiometry. Unlike other materials that have a metal-insulator transition (MIT), this material relies on the movement of copper ions within a rigid lattice of vanadium and oxygen. They clarified the underlying mechanism driving this behavior. The utilization of coupled cation diffusion and polaron oscillation further demonstrates a means of using ionic vectors to obtain highly nonlinear conductance […]
Tag Archives: Neuroscience
Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’
Nanowerk April 12, 2019 An international team of researchers (USA – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley, industries, UC San Diego, University of Miami, Duke University, Purdue University, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Canada, Russia, Australia) predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, AI, and computation will lead this century to the development of a “Human Brain/Cloud Interface” (B/CI), that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud-computing networks in real time. According to the researchers the B/CI system mediated by neuralnanorobotics could empower individuals with instantaneous access to all cumulative human knowledge available in […]
Robots to autocomplete Soldier tasks
Science Daily April 4, 2019 The Army envisions a future battlefield wrought with teams of Soldiers and autonomous systems. As part of this future vision, the Army is looking to create technologies that can predict states and behaviors of the individual to create a more optimized team. A team of researchers in the US (ARL, Columbia University, SUNY Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Santa Barbara) is looking at ways the dynamics and architecture of the human brain may be coordinated to predict such behaviors and consequently optimize team performance. While this research focuses on a single person, […]
Growing computers in petri dishes
Eurekalert September 14, 2018 Researchers at Lehigh University are working on an NSF project in support of Understanding the Brain and the BRAIN Initiative that seeks to accelerate the development of new neurotechnologies. They will be building an experimental testbed that will enable optical stimulation and detection of the activity in a living network of neurons and develop algorithms to train it. According to the researchers the intended impact of this work is to help computer engineers develop new ways to think about the design of solid-state machines and may influence other brain-related research…read more.
Electrical Pulses and Neural Code Boost Memory Storage
IEEE Spectrum April 6, 2018 A team of researchers in the US (Wake Forest School of Medicine, UCLA, Virginia Tech, University of South Carolina) recorded the brain activity associated with the storage of specific information, mathematically modeled and decoded that activity, and then wrote the code back into brain to make existing memory work better. With the electrical boost, volunteers’ memory performance improved by 35 percent. The research is one of several approaches that could one day lead to “brain prostheses” to fill in for lost memory. The study was funded by DARPA through its Restoring Active Memory, or RAM […]
Are we quantum computers? International collaboration will investigate the brain’s potential for quantum computation
Phys.org March 27, 2018 QuBrain project at UCSB is a collaborative project among an international team of leading scientists spanning quantum physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, colloid science and behavioral neuroscience to seek explicit experimental evidence to answer whether we might in fact be quantum computers. They will explore neuronal function with state-of-the-art technology from completely new angles. QuBrain has the potential for breakthroughs in the fields of biomaterials, biochemical catalysis, quantum entanglement in solution chemistry and mood disorders in humans, regardless of whether quantum processes indeed take place in the brain… read more.