{"id":27798,"date":"2016-07-13T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/allen-brain-observatory-peers-into-the-minds-of-mice-as-they-watch-movies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:07:11","slug":"allen-brain-observatory-peers-into-the-minds-of-mice-as-they-watch-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/allen-brain-observatory-peers-into-the-minds-of-mice-as-they-watch-movies","title":{"rendered":"Allen Brain Observatory peers into the minds of mice as they watch movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fSaOCDmRs1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.brain-map.org\/visualcoding\">Allen Brain Observatory<\/a> is open for business, revealing what\u2019s running through the mind of a mouse as it sees patterns of light and dark, pictures of butterflies and tigers \u2013 or even the opening scene of Orson Welles\u2019 1958 classic film, \u201cTouch of Evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The online repository of 30 trillion bytes\u2019 worth of brain-cell readings represents the latest scientific offering from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleninstitute.org\/what-we-do\/brain-science\/\">Allen Institute for Brain Science<\/a>, funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It follows through on a <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/03\/21\/10793463-billionaire-paul-allen-kicks-off-brain-observatory-effort-with-300-million?lite\">$300 million pledge that Allen made more than four years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Allen Institute\u2019s president and chief scientific officer, Christof Koch, has compared the project to a Hubble Space Telescope for the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/allen-brain-observatory-minds-mice-movies\/\">http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/allen-brain-observatory-minds-mice-movies\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allen Brain Observatory is open for business, revealing what\u2019s running through the mind of a mouse as it sees patterns of light and dark, pictures of butterflies and tigers \u2013 or even the opening scene of Orson Welles\u2019 1958 classic film, \u201cTouch of Evil.\u201d The online repository of 30 trillion bytes\u2019 worth of brain-cell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798","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=27798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61207,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions\/61207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}