How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car

How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car By Jon Hamilton for NPR  1 July 2015 David Williams/Illustration Works/Corbis If you run into an old friend at the train station, your brain will probably form a memory of the experience. And that memory will forever link the person you saw…

July 1, 2015

Rapid Encoding of New Memories by Individual Neurons in the Human Brain

Rapid Encoding of New Memories by Individual Neurons in the Human Brain Matias J. Ison, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Itzhak Fried Neuron  2015  87:220-230 © The Author(s). 2015 Published: 01 July 2015 Highlights • Contextual associations were used to model the formation of new memories • Human single…

July 1, 2015

The Strength of Utah Tech

June 30, 2015

Pentagon Gambles on Brain Implants, Bionic Limbs and Combat Exoskeletons

Pentagon Gambles on Brain Implants, Bionic Limbs and Combat Exoskeletons By Sara Reardon for Nature magazine 12 June 2015 DARPA makes a big push into biological research, but some scientists question whether its high-risk approach can work An exoskeleton designed through DARPA's Warrior Web…

June 12, 2015

Watch Paralyzed Man Move Robotic Arm with his Mind

Watch Paralyzed Man Move Robotic Arm with his Mind By Jessica Stoller-Conrad for Caltech 22 May 2015 "I joke around with the guys that I want to be able to drink my own beer—to be able to take a drink at my own pace, when I want to take a sip out of my beer and to not have to ask somebody to…

May 22, 2015

Brain-Reading Implant Controls Arm

Brain-Reading Implant Controls Arm By James Gallagher for BBC News 22 May 2015 A man has been able to control a robotic limb with a mind-reading chip implanted in his brain. It allowed Erik Sorto, from California, to sip a drink unaided for the first time in 10 years. The details, published…

May 22, 2015

Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human

Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human Tyson Aflalo, Spencer Kellis, Christian Klaes, Brian Lee, Ying Shi, Kelsie Pejsa, Kathleen Shanfield, Stephanie Hayes-Jackson, Mindy Aisen, Christi Heck, Charles Liu, Richard A. Andersen Science  2015  348:906-910 ©…

May 22, 2015

DARPA Dreams: Cortical Modems and Neural RAMplants for Restoring Active Memory

DARPA Dreams: Cortical Modems and Neural RAMplants for Restoring Active Memory By John Hewitt for Extreme Tech 28 April 2015 A compelling encore to inventing the Internet appears more elusive for DARPA with each passing day. But what if they could put the Internet in your brain? That might…

April 28, 2015

In Brief: Robotics, Smart Textiles, Mental Remote Control, Electronic Implant

In Brief: Robotics, Smart Textiles, Mental Remote Control, Electronic Implant By Célia Sampol for MedicalExpo magazine 28 April 2015 PLUSES AND MINUSES OF USING ROBOTICS IN GENERAL SURGERY The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) recently came to an important consensus on the…

April 28, 2015

Scientific Research, Development are Crucial to Utah’s Economic Future

Scientific Research, Development are Crucial to Utah's Economic Future By A Scott Anderson for Extreme Tech 27 March 2015 Laura Seitz, Deseret News | Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative researchers showcase their most exciting projects and emerging technologies at the 2013…

March 27, 2015