{"id":29064,"date":"2016-08-18T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/neuromorphic-computing-mimics-important-brain-feature"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:53:55","slug":"neuromorphic-computing-mimics-important-brain-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/neuromorphic-computing-mimics-important-brain-feature","title":{"rendered":"Neuromorphic computing mimics important brain feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuromorphic-computing-mimics-important-brain-feature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Phys.org<\/i>)\u2014When you hear a sound, only some of the neurons in the auditory cortex of your brain are activated. This is because every auditory neuron is tuned to a certain range of sound, so that each neuron is more sensitive to particular types and levels of sound than others. In a new study, researchers have designed a neuromorphic (\u201cbrain-inspired\u201d) computing system that mimics this neural selectivity by using artificial level-tuned neurons that preferentially respond to specific types of stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, level-tuned neurons may help enable <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neuromorphic+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuromorphic computing<\/a> systems to perform tasks that traditional computers cannot, such as learning from their environment, pattern recognition, and knowledge extraction from big data sources.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, Angeliki Pantazi <i>et al<\/i>., at IBM Research-Zurich and \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, both in Switzerland, have published a paper on the new neuromorphic architecture in a recent issue of <i>Nanotechnology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-neuromorphic-mimics-important-brain-feature.html#jCp\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-neuromorphic-mimics-importa...e.html#jCp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014When you hear a sound, only some of the neurons in the auditory cortex of your brain are activated. This is because every auditory neuron is tuned to a certain range of sound, so that each neuron is more sensitive to particular types and levels of sound than others. In a new study, researchers have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064","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\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50025,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064\/revisions\/50025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}