10 psychological experiments you must see

In this link: http://goo.gl/DFHJKq you can see some short description and videos on 10 most famous psychological experiments. It's interesting. worth to take a look. 

a possible way to analyse brain, my thesis!

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1- Hilary Putnam on left:  brain is an information processing system, the same as computers. He called it Computational theory of mind.

2- David Marr tri-Level Hypothesis: to understand an information processing system we should analyze it in three levels: Computationaly (what’s input and output, what's the problem), Algorithmic (how to solve it) and implementation(physical level).

Based on 1 and 2:  understanding the brain means, analysing all cognitive models in three levels of Marr.

For the first levelof Marr, Computational case, what we can do?

We can check if it is NP-Complete or not.

Let’s think its NP-Complete then it means it’s complety wrong? In other words our brain is not capable of  running such a model?

Nope, brain is much more smarter, it shrinks some parameters then solves the problem.

It means Instead of NP-Completeness we should check Prameterized complexity analysis.

Yes, That’s all. My thesis!

IBM SyNAPSE project

Awesome! They are going to build a new architecture for computers, completely far from today's von Neumann's ones.
This brain Inspired architecture will bring a new thinking, new softwares and new algorithms. Let's see what will happen. 

Glia! The mysterious parts of our brain

Glia, the cells that 85% of our brain are them.
What they do? Making the environment ready for neurons to do their job.
Just this? No. Recently, it is showed that the Astrocyte glia cells also infer processing information but not with electric signals as neurons do.
Wow! It's really amazing.
I don't know what will happen to neuroscience by new discovery, but at least in Artificial neural networks we can have both of these guys.
;) 

Artificial Psychology book

I've just finished taking a look at the book that my supervisor lend me: Artificial Psychology by Jay Friedenberg.
I can just say, it's Super Awesome, it's one of the most interesting books I've ever seen.
It discussed different topics in cognitive science such as learning, intelligence, consciousness, creativity, emotions and many other things then talked about possible ways of modeling and also previous and ongoing work in these fields. It just give the general ideas, so it's much easier to read and more fun.

Thanks Jay.
Thanks Todd.

Mark Changizi TED talk about illusions

Interesting! His idea: Our brain predict everything a small proportion of a second in advance, That's why we see illusions.

Happy Nowruz, Iranian New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR ;)