"A Complete Map of the Brain of a Mouse"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/science/26brain.html
"It is a common scientific strategy to figure out things first in mice before moving to people."
The map is available online.
"They said putting the mouse brain online would accelerate brain research throughout the world."
"As you come up through computer science, as I did in high school and at Microsoft, you’re also fascinated by how the brain works in comparison with computers," Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, said. "You wonder how the brain does things such as vision." (paraphrase)
The new project: the human neocortex, 80% of the brain and the area where most higher function occurs, and then probably the rest of the human brain
"Paul Allen says the link between human and machine intelligence is part of what inspired him to fund the project."
"It is a common scientific strategy to figure out things first in mice before moving to people."
The map is available online.
"They said putting the mouse brain online would accelerate brain research throughout the world."
"As you come up through computer science, as I did in high school and at Microsoft, you’re also fascinated by how the brain works in comparison with computers," Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, said. "You wonder how the brain does things such as vision." (paraphrase)
The new project: the human neocortex, 80% of the brain and the area where most higher function occurs, and then probably the rest of the human brain
"Paul Allen says the link between human and machine intelligence is part of what inspired him to fund the project."
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