http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18626/
Kwabena Boahen is part of a small but growing community of scientists and engineers using a process they call "neuromorphing" to build complicated electronic circuits meant to model the behavior of neural circuits. Their work takes advantage of anatomical diagrams of different parts of the brain generated through years of painstaking animal studies by neuroscientists around the world. The hope is that hardwired models of the brain will yield insights difficult to glean through existing experimental techniques. --------------------------- Putting you or me on a chip is still a long way off, but this does seem to be blurring some edges. What KB's work does NOT do, as best I understand it, is model the secondary channels of information in the brain. Chemical channels. -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
