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NeuroAesthetics: Meaning is in the Brain of the Beholder
The second annual Chen Brain and Mind Lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 1st at 7pm at the California Academy of Sciences. This year, neuroscientist, opera stage director, and 2023 Osher Fellow, Dr. Indre Viskontas will lead the audience on a journey explaining how our brains turn sensory perceptions into meaningful and moving experiences […]
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A Theory of Rage
From petty anger to the devastating violence we see in the news, acts of aggression can be difficult to comprehend. Research has yielded puzzling paradoxes about how rage works in the brain. But a new study from Caltech, pioneering a machine-learning research technique in the hypothalamus, reveals unexpected answers on the nature of aggression. […]
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Spray-on smart skin uses AI to rapidly understand hand tasks
A novel, electrically active smart skin can rapidly decipher typing, sign language, even the shape of a familiar object from the movements of a human hand even with limited data. Image: Spray-on sensory system which consists of printed, bio-compatible nanomesh directly connected with wireless Bluetooth module and further trained through meta-learning Credit: Kyun Kyu […]
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2022 TCCI Holiday Newsletter
Summer has gone by all too fast but as we shift into the Fall season, we’re happy to share with you our news from the last few months. As always, there is a lot to report but we’d like to highlight a few things in particular
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Toward a fully implantable ecosystem for adaptive neuromodulation in humans
Recently, Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Chen Frontier Lab for Applied Neurotechnology which is affiliated with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI), was the lead author on an article which describes initial work done towards creating an ecosystem for adaptive neuromodulation in humans. The paper, entitled “Toward a fully implantable ecosystem for adaptive neuromodulation […]
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Endurance, Change and Vision: The Caltech Chen Neuroscience Research Building
Copper and LEED certification help intelligent neuroscience research building foster cross-disciplinary collaboration Chinese billionaire philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo were inspired by a news item about research in which a person could control a robotic arm using only their mind. So much so, that they donated $115 million to help fund a neuroscience institute […]
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Gut Microbes Influence Binge-Eating of Sweet Treats in Mice
We have all been there. You just meant to have a single Oreo as a snack, but then you find yourself going back for another, and another, and before you know it, you have finished off the entire package even though you were not all that hungry to begin with. But before you start […]
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Brain-Machine Interface Device Predicts Internal Speech
New Caltech research is showing how devices implanted into people’s brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak. In a new study presented at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, researchers demonstrated that they could use a BMI to accurately predict which words […]
