Measuring auditory responses in the somatosensory cortex opens new questions about how sound and touch are interlinked
Read article: Auditory responses question modality-specific brain regions
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Memristors are good synapses, graphene-oxide desalination, surface tension higher for short times
Model reveals functional role of spin-glass-like states in neurological networks
Read article: Spin glass provides insight into brain activity
Jessamyn Fairfield looks at a new generation of computational devices that can mimic the networks of neurons in our brains
Read article: Smarter machines: the evolution of neuromorphic engineering
Calculations suggest memory and learning could be mimicked by quasiparticles
Read article: Magnetic skyrmions could help make low-energy artificial ‘brains’
“Badass”. That was the word Harvard University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez used in a Tweet to describe research published online by fellow neuroscientist Ali Güler and colleagues in the journal ...
Read article: Physics for excited neurons
