{"id":21984,"date":"2016-02-11T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/collaborative-minds-bringing-sounds-to-brain-data-in-yearlong-project"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:34","slug":"collaborative-minds-bringing-sounds-to-brain-data-in-yearlong-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/collaborative-minds-bringing-sounds-to-brain-data-in-yearlong-project","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Minds Bringing Sounds to Brain Data in Yearlong Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/collaborative-minds-bringing-sounds-to-brain-data-in-yearlong-project.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very huge step forward for brain sensory mapping.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have provided eye-popping pictures of the way the brain is wired, and allowed neuroscientists and laypeople alike to view intricate anatomical and functional connections between regions of the brain. But what if a new tool could be applied to MRI and other data, to listen to the way the brain works and how it is forged with connections?<\/p>\n<p>An emerging effort to \u201csonify\u201d imaging data is taking root at UT Dallas\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/vitallongevity.utdallas.edu\/\">Center for Vital Longevity<\/a>, in the lab of <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.utdallas.edu\/people\/detail.php5?i=1131\">Dr. Gagan Wig<\/a>. The approach, now funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), allows data to be represented by sounds from which a trained listener might be able to discern patterns of brain connectivity not readily seen in available visualization strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Wig, an assistant professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.utdallas.edu\/\">School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/a>, is working with his UT Dallas colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/chairs\/profiles\/malina.html\">Dr. Roger Malina<\/a>, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/atec\/artstechnology\/gresham-lancaster\/\">Scot Gresham-Lancaster<\/a>, assistant professor in the sound design program in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/atec\/\">School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication<\/a>, and a mix of scientists, computer programmers and artists to translate data to sight and sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/news\/2016\/2\/12-31902_Collaborative-Minds-Bringing-Sounds-to-Brain-Data-_story-wide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very huge step forward for brain sensory mapping. Data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have provided eye-popping pictures of the way the brain is wired, and allowed neuroscientists and laypeople alike to view intricate anatomical and functional connections between regions of the brain. But what if a new tool could be applied to MRI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68504,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions\/68504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}