Xeroxed gene may have paved the way for large human brain

Science ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Pennisi
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
The Way

Reconsidering Informed and Participatory Citizenship in the Current Media Ecosystem

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Maria Elizabeth Grabe ◽  
Ozen Bas
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Verbal Processing ◽  
Participatory Citizenship ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Memory Knowledge ◽  
The Way

The focus of this chapter is on how changes in the media landscape have forced the reconsideration of the way in which ‘memory’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘informed citizenship’ are understood, defined, and researched. Thus, for example, journalism needs to take account of the phenomenon of so-called news grazing (the active consumption of news by flipping through channels and skipping unwanted material) and that of incidental news exposure (unintended exposure to news when media users go online for non-news functions). Traditional views of informed citizenship (as simply acquiring appropriate facts and information) are challenged by calls to include applied understanding and comprehension of social issues and emotional responses to those issues. The chapter is critical of an excessive reliance on verbal tests of memory and stresses the need to develop visual measures, given that the human brain is better adapted for visual than verbal processing.

scholarly journals Character Segmentation and Skew Correction for Handwritten Devanagari Scripts: A Friends Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Bathla . ◽  
Sunil Kumar Gupta .
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Skew Correction ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Handwritten Text ◽  
Scripting Language ◽  
The Way

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows a computer to “read” text (both typed and handwritten) the way a human brain does.Significant research efforts have been put in the area of Optical Character Segmentation (OCR) of typewritten text in various languages, however very few efforts have been put on the segmentation and skew correction of handwritten text written in Devanagari which is a scripting language of Hindi. This paper aims a novel technique for segmentation and skew correction of hand written Devanagari text. It shows the accuracy of 91% and takes less than one second to segment a particular handwritten word.

scholarly journals Computers That Look Like the Brain

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahar Kvatinsky
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Structure ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Way

Artificial intelligence applications have been developing rapidly over the past few years, allowing computers to perform complex actions, such as driving without a driver, making decisions, and recognizing faces. These applications require that many calculations be performed in parallel and immense amounts of information are needed. This article demonstrates how inefficient today’s computer structure is for performing artificial intelligence applications. To deal with this challenge and improve artificial intelligence applications, we will see how inspiration from the way the human brain works will allow us to build completely new computers, which will rock the way computers have been built for many years.

scholarly journals The case of traumatic tetanus

2020 ◽  
Vol VIII (2) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
V. N. Dolgov
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Way

In speaking with this communication, I mean mainly to give a description of the picture, the data, which I received when studying the brain of a man who died of traumatic tetanus. The interest of this study lies, by the way, in the fact that the material for my work was a fresh human brain, and the study could be done using the Nissl method, which of course is not always possible. We usually have the opportunity to study the human brain already at a time when the corpse has undergone significant decomposition, when, consequently, the application of the Nissl method is not entirely reliable, and the results obtained in this case are inconclusive and doubtful. Since I performed the study of the brain mainly according to the Nissl method, I consider it necessary to say a few words beforehand about this method.

scholarly journals Repeated Stimulus Exposure Alters the Way Sound Is Encoded in the Human Brain

PLoS ONE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e10283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly L. Tremblay ◽  
Kayo Inoue ◽  
Katrina McClannahan ◽  
Bernhard Ross
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Stimulus Exposure ◽  
Repeated Stimulus ◽  
The Way

Fundamentalism as a Preconscious Response to a Perceived Threat

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Wendy Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
The Way

Fundamentalisms bear a family resemblance for a reason, and that reason lies in the human brain. Using cognitive theories of morality, many of the features of fundamentalisms can be shown to be independent of religion. They are triggered rather by largely automatic moral intuitions, which elicit specific social behaviors. This helps to explain why fundamentalisms are not specific to transcendental religions or in particular to monotheisms but develop across a wide variety of religions. What the individual religion contributes is, for the most part, what specific values it holds sacred. In this respect, if in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity tradition is, in itself, a sacred value, in fundamentalisms tradition is something that is appealed to for authority, as well as subjected to reduction, rewritten, and coopted. This research suggests that fundamentalism is something larger than a purely modern phenomenon. In demonstrating that the reactivity of fundamentalisms is triggered by threats to the sacred rather than secularization itself, it opens up the way to exploring the phenomenon in the longue durée across a significantly larger range of historical periods and cultures.

scholarly journals Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Kristofer Hansson ◽  
Ellen Suneson
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

The aim of this article is to analyse popular neuroimaging of (dis)able(d) brains as a cultural phenomenon, as well as to explore how there has been, during the last decades, a subtle but important change in the way “normal” brains are depicted in popular science. Popular neuroimaging is introduced and used as an empirical basis to analyse what Fiona Kumari Campbell sees as a critique against ableism. The empirical material consists of two British popular science documentaries (both produced by the BBC) on the topic of the brain: Human Brain (1983), and Brain Story (2004). The article argues that the position of normality and able-bodiedness has changed as the development of brain scanning techniques has emerged. In particular, there seems to have been a change in how the brain is visualized and talked about. New frameworks for understanding normality, disability and vulnerability have appeared. Furthermore, we claim that this shift needs to be studied from a theoretical perspective that analyses the discursive logic of the (dis)able(d) brain where an indistinctness transpires and creates a form of vulnerable normality.

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