{"id":80601,"date":"2018-07-13T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered"},"modified":"2018-07-13T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:42:38","slug":"nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Nanomaterials that mimic nerve impulses (spikes) discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"nanomaterials simulate nerve impulses\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"360\"><b><center>Nanomaterials that mimic nerve impulses (credit: Osaka University)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A combination of nanomaterials that can mimic nerve impulses (\u201cspikes\u201d) in the brain have been discovered by researchers at Kyushu Institute of Technology and Osaka University in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Current \u201cneuromorphic\u201d (brain-like) chips (such as IBM\u2019s neurosynaptic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TrueNorth\">TrueNorth<\/a>) and circuits (such as those based on the NVIDIA GPGPU, or general purpose graphical processing unit) are devices based on complex circuits that emulate only one part of the brain\u2019s mechanisms: the learning ability of synapses (which connect neurons together).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-impulses-spikes-discovered\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/nanomaterials-that-mimic-nerve-imp...discovered<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanomaterials that mimic nerve impulses (credit: Osaka University) A combination of nanomaterials that can mimic nerve impulses (\u201cspikes\u201d) in the brain have been discovered by researchers at Kyushu Institute of Technology and Osaka University in Japan. Current \u201cneuromorphic\u201d (brain-like) chips (such as IBM\u2019s neurosynaptic TrueNorth) and circuits (such as those based on the NVIDIA GPGPU, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}