{"id":99874,"date":"2019-12-17T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/researchers-observe-brain-like-behavior-in-nanoscale-device"},"modified":"2019-12-17T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:45:18","slug":"researchers-observe-brain-like-behavior-in-nanoscale-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/researchers-observe-brain-like-behavior-in-nanoscale-device","title":{"rendered":"Researchers observe brain-like behavior in nanoscale device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-observe-brain-like-behavior-in-nanoscale-device3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCLA scientists James Gimzewski and Adam Stieg are part of an international research team that has taken a significant stride toward the goal of creating thinking machines.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers at Japan\u2019s National Institute for Materials Science, the team created an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/experimental+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">experimental device<\/a> that exhibited characteristics analogous to certain behaviors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>\u2014learning, memorization, forgetting, wakefulness and sleep. The paper, published in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, describes a network in a state of continuous flux.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a system between order and chaos, on the edge of chaos,\u201d said Gimzewski, a UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and a co-author of the study. \u201cThe way that the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> constantly evolves and shifts mimics the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a>. It can come up with different types of behavior patterns that don\u2019t repeat themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA scientists James Gimzewski and Adam Stieg are part of an international research team that has taken a significant stride toward the goal of creating thinking machines. Led by researchers at Japan\u2019s National Institute for Materials Science, the team created an experimental device that exhibited characteristics analogous to certain behaviors of the brain\u2014learning, memorization, forgetting, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99874","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}