Mind-reading AI decodes thoughts from brain scans by Alex Wilkins in New Scientist 22 October 2022
Viewing brain scans now allows us to read minds. Researchers have successfully trained algorithms...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE ARTICLES
Modelling the brain Fiat Lux in The Economist 15 October 2022
Dr Moreau is born again. For those of you who did not read HG Wells’ The island of Dr Moreau, it...
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Artificial neuron swaps dopamine with rat brain cells by Alex Wilkins in New Scientist 13 August 2022
Researchers have now created artificial neurons that can be triggered by neurotransmitters. So far...
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Butterflies of the soul in The Economist 2 July 2022
Neuroscience might come to the rescue of computer science once again. Over the last 20 years or...
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Special brain cells may signal when to start a new memory by Clare Wilson in New Scientists 12 March 2022
The brain continues to give up its secrets. We have a fair idea as to how memories are stored in...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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Can you get hooked on video games? in The Economist 1 January 2022
Video gaming addiction is becoming a serious business. Facebook is changing its name to Metaverse....
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Graham Lawton interviews Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony about Noise in New Scientist 19 June 2021
Humans really are alarmingly inconsistent in their judgements. It is hard to see why we would...
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Dream power by Erik Hoel in New Scientist 7 November 2020
An interesting theory on the meaning of dreams. We know broadly what happens in the brain when we...
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
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Fly atlas in The Economist 25 January 2020
The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...
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Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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Hidden consciousness by Helen Thomson in NewScientist 29 June 2019
Is the thalamus at the heart of consciousness? There is a growing understanding of those who can...
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Inside the mind’s eye by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 8 June 2019
People with amazingly clear mental images. Cossins writes about those people with the unusual...
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One of these is a power drill by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 270419
AI uses one method to do object recognition; humans use two. Everyone is familiar with the AI...
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‘Mini brains’ show human-like activity by Sara Reardon in Nature 22 November 2018
Cortical tissue in a Petri dish makes waves. Scientists have cultured stem cells to form clumps of...
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The plant whisperer by Joshua Howgego in NewScientist 24 November 2018
Plants can learn and memorise. Evolutionary ecologist, Monica Gagliano, has managed to demonstrate...
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Beyond fast and slow by Madeleine Finlay in NewScientist 17 November 2018
Critiquing Kahneman’s Thinking, fast and slow. Daniel Kahneman popularised the idea that...
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Thoughts laid bare by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 29 September 2018
Could AI help us discover where consciousness lies in the brain? Some of the world’s big...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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