Complex living brain simulation replicates sensory rat behaviour
by Ian Sample, science editor from on (#PWC8)
Blue Brain Project supercomputer recreates part of rodent's brain with 30,000 neurons connected by 40m synapses to show patterns of behaviour triggered, for example, when whiskers are touched
A piece of living brain has been reconstructed in a supercomputer in what amounts to one of the most sophisticated neural simulations ever created.
The digital lump of rat brain, made from ones and zeroes, mimics the behaviour of about 30,000 neurons connected to one another by 40m synapses.
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