Scientist have discovered how the brain codes and represents nouns. They have found, that the brain uses three basic categories to think about common nouns: Can I hold it, can I get inside it and can I eat it?

For their study, the scientists showed people 60 words and analyzed the brain’s activation patterns with a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine. Really intriguing is the inverse process: To find out, which of the 60 words the subject was thinking of, by analyzing the brain’s activation patterns.

You can find the study in the journal PloS One or read the article in prnewswire.com

Researchers are working on a project to adapt brain processes to “wet computing” by setting up chemicals in a tube which behave like the transistors in a computer chip. The “wet computer” will literally simulate neurons and signal processing on the chemical level.

(via bbc.co.uk)

semantic system and James V. Hardt, Biocybernaut Institute have decided for co-operation in neuro-feedback R&D (see Take your brain to the gym). Both parties evaluate the possibility in the integration of the two neural analysis approaches for enhanced functionally in both technologies.

About James V. Hardt, Biocybernaut Institute

Dr. James V. Hardt is a physicist, psychologist and psychophysiologist with over thirty years of research and clinical practice in neuro-feedback. The Biocybernaut Institute offers intensive training programs using custom advanced technology in the field of neuro-feedback.