{"id":30449,"date":"2016-09-24T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/ibm-is-one-step-closer-to-mimicking-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:02","slug":"ibm-is-one-step-closer-to-mimicking-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/ibm-is-one-step-closer-to-mimicking-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"IBM is one step closer to mimicking the human brain"},"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\/hXeO8Kzz3bo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at IBM have claimed a computational breakthrough after imitating large populations of neurons for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Neurons are electrically excitable cells that process and transmit information in our brains through electrical and chemical signals. These signals are passed over synapses, specialised connections with other cells.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this set-up that inspired scientists at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/brand\/ibm\">IBM<\/a> to try and mirror the way the biological brain functions using phase-change materials for memory applications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2016\/09\/24\/ibm-is-one-step-closer-to-mimicking-the-human-brain\/\">https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2016\/09\/24\/ibm-is-one-step-...man-brain\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at IBM have claimed a computational breakthrough after imitating large populations of neurons for the first time. Neurons are electrically excitable cells that process and transmit information in our brains through electrical and chemical signals. These signals are passed over synapses, specialised connections with other cells. It\u2019s this set-up that inspired scientists at IBM [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449","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\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions\/60294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}