brain networks
brain networks
AD-ENM server: computing with elastic network models
http://enm.lobos.nih.gov/ Modelers run into trouble when very high degree of freedom models need to be calculated. Not many of us have supercomputers to use, or even access to one. So theoreticians a...
brain networks
Fun with oscillations
http://www.myphysicslab.com/spring1.html Oscillations are an ubiquitous – shall we say archetypal – form for which Mother Nature has special fondness. I recall a discussion by physicist Richard Feynman where he stated somet...
artificial intelligence
When will we find our Legos?
http://www.neurdon.com/2012/10/18/neural-assembly-computing-a-brief-overview/ For many of us growing up, Legos, not atoms or molecules, were the fundamental building block...
abnormal psych
Quora, when you just have to have intelligent responses
https://www.quora.com/ You are obsessed with a question. Your sleep is interrupted. When you are sleeping, you dream about the question. You have discussed it with all the usual ...
artificial intelligence
Golly GOL wizard and The Game of Life
http://golly.sourceforge.net/ The Game Of Life (not the board game by Hasbro/Funskool!) is a mathematical ‘zero-player game’ – the player can’t intervene after the game has started. Technically, it’...
artificial intelligence
mCRL2: Are there process algebras in our brain?
When Cool Runnings had its one year birthday recently, we took time to reflect on what kind of sites we had come to particularly value. They had to do with neuroscience, of course, and when possible, with consciousness s...
artificial intelligence
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting: An introduction to network theory and practice
The title of this entry contains the penultimate line in a poem by Robert Lowell entitled Dolphin. The net that binds the confessional poet has many strands: the iron-clad spoils of his pitiless memory, the effervescence...
altered states
Mental physics
Mullah Nasruddin embodies the way of the wise fool to which one aspires with increasing maturity: One day, people saw Mullah Nasruddin...
basal ganglia
A 20 micron resolution 3D map of a human brain
Resolution is now often measured in pixels, but the more familiar method is to use measures of distance. Resolution is not the same as size, although the two terms are sometimes conflat...
abnormal psych
Will what is missing solve consciousness?
In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...