| Dr. Henry Markram, director of the Human Brain Project recently discussed various topics involved with the project and how the study of neuroscience is already having an impact. |
His research career started in medicine and neuroscience in South Africa, then at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, at NIH and UCSF in the United States, and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. In 2002, he joined the EPFL, where he founded the Brain Mind Institute. His career has spanned a wide spectrum of neuroscience research, from whole animal studies to gene expression in single cells.
The overall goal of the Human Brain Project is to create a digital simulation of the human brain. The simulation model is the pivotal point of the research facility.
In order to create this model, it will be necessary to collect and treat an enormous quantity of neuroscientific and genetic information from research undertaken within Human Brain Project and elsewhere. These data will then feed the simulation. Along the whole course of the Human Brain Project, the ongoing results will considerably impact the following fields:
In order to create this model, it will be necessary to collect and treat an enormous quantity of neuroscientific and genetic information from research undertaken within Human Brain Project and elsewhere. These data will then feed the simulation. Along the whole course of the Human Brain Project, the ongoing results will considerably impact the following fields:
- - Neuroinformatics
- - Medicine
- - Cognition Theory
- - Supercomputing
- - Neurorobotic
- - Neuromorphic computing
- - Brain interfaces
- - Education
- - Social sciences
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| Henry Markram |
In the embedded video below, Markram discusses various topics involved with the Human Brain Project. One of Markram's points in the discussion is around how the study of neuroscience has led to a better understanding of autism.
What was once thought to be a type of mental retardation, autism is now considered to be related to an overstimulated brain, and the inability of autistic persons to cope with a flood of incoming data into their senses. Juan Enriquez has even gone so far as to point the rise in autism as a possible sign of human evolution attempting to cope with our data-loaded culture.
What was once thought to be a type of mental retardation, autism is now considered to be related to an overstimulated brain, and the inability of autistic persons to cope with a flood of incoming data into their senses. Juan Enriquez has even gone so far as to point the rise in autism as a possible sign of human evolution attempting to cope with our data-loaded culture.
The neurorobotics model of the project will work to explore and develop brain-machine interface platforms for the future. To date no current robot can emulate the cognition and behavior of simple animals, let alone of humans. This would require a brain or brain-like controller. To meet this challenge, the HBP will create a Facility for Neurorobotics. The first task of the facility will be to create closed loop systems coupling brain simulations to virtual and physical robots. The new systems will allow project scientists to study the emergence of cognition and behavior as the robots adapt to their environment.
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