Scientists are only beginning to advance memory-enhancing technology research, but even in this early stage, there are questions that deserve consideration
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What makes music beautiful?
New research suggests that the brain simplifies complex patterns, much in the same way that "lossless" music compression formats reduce audio files, by removing redundant data and identifying patterns....
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What Can You Do Without a Brain?
Scientists Create Mini Brains from Skin Cells to Shed Light on Autism
Researchers have converted skin cells from autism patients into stem cells and then grew them into tiny brains in a dish — revealing unexpected mechanisms of the autism.
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WHAT IT TAKES TO CHANGE YOUR BRAIN'S PATTERNS AFTER AGE 25
MOST OF OUR BRAIN'S PATTERNS ARE SOLIDIFIED BY OUR MID-20S, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE TO CHANGE YOUR BRAIN'S PATHWAYS AND PATTERNS WITH THESE METHODS.
Thoughts Can Fuel Some Deadly Brain Cancers
Just another way to transfer messages to the brain:
Soon You'll Get Marijuana Based On Your Brain Activity
Marijuana connoisseurs may soon have a new option for finding the best weed: brain scans.....read on
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CONDUCTAR: MOOGFEST DOCUMENTATION
"An immersive augmented-reality installation, layered on top of the entire city of Asheville, invites Moogfest goers to wander the city and conduct a generative audio-visual world through movement and their neurological response to the environment. Inspired by the psychogeographical concept of “Dérive,” the installation runs on a mobile app connected to a brainwave sensor. As festival goers drift from one venue to the next, they will collectively compose new music with the electrical activity of their brains (EEG data). This music, and the corresponding visual world, will exist uniquely for each user. Every minute of Moogfest, the immersive world will evolve, both sonically and visually. The entire city becomes a virtual canvas to compose and explore through each footstep. iPhone app available through the app store.
April 23rd through April 27th at Moogfest 2014"
A global collaboration harnessing the power of music for health.
from the page:
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We are creating a platform to scientifically measure and harness music to improve health.
Our platform maps music characteristics to real-time biometrics gathered from an exploding variety of sensors. We hope to understand and decode the personalized therapeutic effect of music.
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To find out more go to http://thesyncproject.com/
There´s also a more in depth article at FASTCOMPANY which gives you detailed information about the project.
Guide to brain computer music interfacing
Just digging my way through the most complete collection of articles, background infos and projects concerning this topic I know at the moment:
You can get it on amazon.com or amazon.de
Or even better: move your ass out of the door and support a lokal bookstore of your choice ;-)
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How to keep your brain healthy
"...how does cutting-edge neuroscience research translate into practical advice about how to pass exams, remember names, tot up household bills and find where the hell you left the car in a crowded car park?"
First human head transplant could happen in two years
A radical plan for transplanting a head onto someone else’s body is set to be announced. But is such ethically sensitive surgery even feasible?
Human DNA gives mice bigger brains
"Injecting mouse embryos with a human DNA sequence leads to a marked increase in brain size -- and may provide insights into Alzheimer's."
Researchers read and write brain activity with light
A team of neuroscientists at University College London has developed a new way of simultaneously recording and manipulating the activity of multiple cells in the brains of live animals using pulses of light.
7 Mind-Bending Mysteries That Neuroscientists Are on the Verge of Solving
"At one point or another, whether during a showing of The Matrix or sitting in a freshman existentialism seminar, we've all pondered life's eternal questions: Why do we dream? Are we just living in a computer simulation? Do you see the same blue that I see?
Usually we come to the same conclusion: We have no idea, and we never will.
But it turns out that brain scientists like to get just as meta as we do, and unlike us, they have the tools to answer these questions."
More evidence that musical training protects the brain
Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that musical training in younger years can prevent the decay in speech listening skills in later life.
Smoking Thins Vital Part of Brain
"a major study by an international team including the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the University of Edinburgh shows new evidence that long-term smoking could cause thinning of the brain’s cortex. "