{"id":108623,"date":"2020-06-13T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/discovering-how-the-brain-works-through-computation"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:25:56","slug":"discovering-how-the-brain-works-through-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/discovering-how-the-brain-works-through-computation","title":{"rendered":"Discovering how the brain works through computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovering-how-the-brain-works-through-computation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accelerating progress in neuroscience is helping us understand the big picture\u2014how animals behave and which brain areas are involved in bringing about these behaviors\u2014and also the small picture\u2014how molecules, neurons, and synapses interact. But there is a huge gap of knowledge between these two scales, from the whole brain down to the neuron.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Christos Papadimitriou, the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, proposes a new computational system to expand the understanding of the brain at an intermediate level, between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurons<\/a> and cognitive phenomena such as language. The group, which includes computer scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology and a neuroscientist from the Graz University of Technology, has developed a brain architecture that is based on neuronal assemblies, and they demonstrate its use in the syntactic processing in the production of language; their model, published online June 9 in <i>PNAS<\/i>, is consistent with recent experimental results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, understanding the brain has always been a computational problem,\u201d says Papadimitriou, who became fascinated by the brain five years ago. \u201cBecause if it isn\u2019t, I don\u2019t know where to start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accelerating progress in neuroscience is helping us understand the big picture\u2014how animals behave and which brain areas are involved in bringing about these behaviors\u2014and also the small picture\u2014how molecules, neurons, and synapses interact. But there is a huge gap of knowledge between these two scales, from the whole brain down to the neuron. A team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}