Articles tagged with Information Processing
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are developing computing systems that mimic human brain function using lab-grown neurons. The team has created a robotic device called Hybrot, which moves based on brain signals from rats, aiming to advance prosthetic limbs and self-driving cars.
Pre-terms exhibit significantly slower processing speed at recognizing new faces, a skill linked to intelligence and academic achievement. The study suggests pre-terms' slower processing speed is rooted in infancy and may be related to medical risks such as respiratory distress syndrome.
Researchers used fMRI to study how the brain processes visual patterns. They found that a higher area of the brain recognizes patterns and sends a message back down to lower areas to stop responding, allowing for better detection of new or different items. This improved ability can enhance the brain's overall processing efficiency.
The paper proposes an experimentally realizable circuit and an efficient scheme to implement scalable quantum computing. Researchers aim to overcome two major stumbling blocks: preparing, manipulating, and measuring fragile quantum states and controlling connectivity between many qubits.
A study found that prenatal alcohol exposure can impair reaction times, particularly when processing multiple signals. Children with prenatal alcohol exposure showed slower premotor and motor reaction times, indicating difficulties in both central and peripheral processes involved in information processing and action planning.
A recent brain mapping experiment provides significant new support for the theory that attention is the glue that cements visual information together, helping to solve the 'binding problem' in neuroscience. The study found increased activity in the parietal region when individuals were presented with multiple objects at once.
A study found that prenatal alcohol exposure differentially affects visual and auditory attention in adolescents, with dysmorphic individuals showing a specific deficit in visual processing. The results suggest that attention is not uniformly affected, and knowledge of these patterns may aid in the development of remediative programs.
Researchers found that people unconsciously transfer traits from speakers to other humans and even inanimate objects. Using psychology students as volunteers, the study confirmed that spontaneous trait transference is an automatic brain process.
A meta-analysis of studies on risk factors for unsafe driving found that cognitive processing speed is the most accurate measure of older drivers' abilities. This metric can be improved through speed of processing training, enhancing driving skills and safety.
Research by University of Michigan cognitive neuroscientist Patricia Reuter-Lorenz found that older adults activate both hemispheres of the brain to perform memory and information processing tasks. This bi-hemispheric processing may help compensate for age-related short-term memory and mental speed declines.