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Neural Circuitry Underlying REM Sleep
Professor Zhili Huang, a researcher from Fudan University, president of the Chinese Sleep Research Society and a Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) Investigator, recently published a paper titled “Neural Circuitry Underlying REM Sleep: A review of the literature and current concepts” in the journal Progress in Neurobiology. In the paper, Professor Huang discussed […]
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Computers Predict People’s Tastes in Art
A new Caltech study, appearing in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, shows that a simple computer program can accurately predict which style of paintings a person will like. Using Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to enlist more than 1,500 volunteers to rate paintings in the genres of impressionism, cubism, abstract, and color field, the volunteers’ […]
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2021 TCCI Summer Newsletter
Welcome to the glorious first days of summer, made even more enjoyable with the new freedoms granted to us by the rapidly spreading wave of vaccinations around the world. After more than a year of complete isolation, we have
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Recording Brain Activity with Laser Light
A Caltech professor, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southern California, has demonstrated for the first time a new technology for imaging the human brain using laser light and ultrasonic sound waves. The technology, known as photoacoustic computerized tomography, or PACT, has been developed by Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering […]
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What might be a mechanism that leads to brain-to-brain coupling in teaching and learning?
This question is raised by one of the TCCI Neurochat 2021 speakers. We are continuously collecting questions from young scientists all over the world. We will explore insightful answers with leading experts. Please pay attention to our website and WeChat platform (nextquestion)!
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what is the internal reward mechanism an animal use to drive decision making during free exploration and social interaction?
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Can we eventually develop noninvasive brain-computer interface to have the mind control?
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To what extent would animal research help to understand the human brain? How far are we from bridging the gap between microscopic, circuit-level neuroscience and human neuroscience studying complex cognitive processes such as knowledge and language?
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Is bounded rationality a consequence of natural selection?
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How neuroscience and artificial intelligence might influence each other in future research？ Are there any basic laws of biological intelligence? If so, how should young scientists work toward that direction?
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