Digital brain fires like the real thing

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3043, 2015, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brains are going digital. A tiny piece of a rat's brain has been reconstructed in minute detail in a computer. The digital model, which includes 31,000 neurons and their 37 million synapses, fires like the real thing, and is already revealing fresh clues as to how the brain works. The simulation is the first significant achievement of the Blue Brain project, which was launched 10 years ago by Henry Markram at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.