I always think by myself: as there should be a theory of everything in physics; it is not weird to have such a thing in neuroscience; hmmm, a set of rules or even one rule that can explain everything happens in our brains. It'll be fantastic.

Reconstructing brain vision

I have just read about the amazing work done by Berkeley neuroscienists: capturing visual activity in brain. the above video shows the result. It is wonderful. who can believe one day scientists could see what you see through your brain. more information is available here.

Earth Day

some tips about Batteries

Batteries that are thrown away produce most of the heavy metals. They can be harmful to humans and wildlife.

• Turn off the toys and games that use batteries when you are not playing with them. That makes the batteries last longer, and you won't need as many of them.

• Buy rechargeable batteries and a recharger.

• Check to see if your device has a "Battery Save" option. If so, you can turn this on to increase the life of your battery

• We should all take batteries to a toxic waste disposal area if it is possible.

From: WikiHow & EnergyQuest

Iranian New year starts on Nowruz

Iranian new year, Nowruz will start a few hours later with a lot of fantastic traditions as seven S'es table, I hope this year be a nice one for all people around the world^_^

I hope every day of your life be Nowruz and you be happy and successful on Nowruzs :)

Technically, the glass is always full :)

Dual ... A keyword for modeling the brain

Dual representation
Dual working
Dual neurons
Dual ....
These days it seems Brain modelers are more interested in using dual things in their models and interestingly by using this word, they have got good results.
Here are some examples of some works around the world:

• USA: Professor Ron Sun's cognitive architecture, He's used dual representation of the brain to build a cognitive modeling software, CLARION. He was so successful in creating creativity in hardware(one of my two last posts was about this.)
  

• Turkey: Professor A. Khashman's published an article recently (A Khashman - Neural Networks, Dec 2010 - Elsevier). He's used a novel emotional dual neural network architecture in face recognition and he got much better results than other models.
  

• Iran: Professor Majid Nili AhmadAbadi: Recently, In AmirKabir cognitive science seminars he talked about good results comes by combining two models and used a dual... I searched the article he talked about but I didn't find it. This article seems to be another successful dual model he works on.
  

I've searched the net to find a theory about what exactly this dual is, and I found Dual-Coding theory.
Maybe the parallel nature of processes in the brain and the relation between different parts of the brain makes this dual works well.
Maybe triplex, foursome, quintuplet, .... works better, betterer,bettererer,... :)