Only her skin and soft cranial tissues stand between the outside world and her brain, and that's not enough.
The photoswitches can be used to control the activity of proteins in the eye that are essential to transmitting information from the outside world to the brain in normal vision.
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But while the world waits for brain powered computing there was general agreement that in many ways the key to easily accessible computing wasn't necessarily only a matter of greater sophistication.
This constant stress hyperdrive continually signals the brain that the world is dangerous, and after a while, the brain completely believes it.
Incidentally, the biggest investment brain in the world got caught up tangentially in the subprime mortgage web.
And can we avoid a world in which thinkers are forced into brain-doping in the same way athletes have been pushed to chemically modify their bodies?
Similarly, we believe the human brain generates perceptions of the world in the same way, by encoding the statistical relationships between images and scenes in our past visual experience and uses this as the basis for behaving usefully and consistently towards the sources of visual images.
The million-dollar prize will go to an individual or team throughout the world who can demonstrate an extraordinary breakthrough in brain technology with global implications.
After the Dubai Ports World fiasco lawmakers have harbor protection on the brain. (When the United Arab Emirates-owned company took over six U.S. ports, it touched off a political firestorm and was forced to put them up for sale.) Congress is turning its attention to the screening of seaborne cargo.
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One of the real shortcomings of the human brain, at least in the business world, is the tendency to hold on to the past.
At the Child Mind Institute in New York, Michael Milham and his colleagues recently persuaded researchers at 33 centers around the world to pool 1, 300 data sets on brain connections into one public collection.
"The brain creates these mental models of the world so that you can function, but the consequence is that it makes you less present, so we don't notice what's around us on a regular basis, " Silva said.
"Brain tumors happen to children all over the world, " said Derek Johnson, executive director of CURE Uganda.
As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
These clerics who were once rather isolated in their little seminary town are now, they have the whole world open to them, and they have this sort of brain trust there.
The sandwiches and hamburgers have a little more garlic than usual, the pizzas come garnished with soujouk or makanik sausage, and it is probably the only place in the world where you can order a 'lamb's-brain sub sandwich all dressed'!
But the country is still experiencing a brain drain to other parts of the region and the world.
It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
This brain drain is a big hurdle for creating a corps of world-class math wizards in China.
The skin not only protects the body, the senses in it also tell the brain a lot about what is going on in the outside world.
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
These days brain research is going on at virtually every Merck lab in the world.
Detecting such insincere forms of communication require many brain functions, including the ability to read emotion, see the world from another person's perspective and understand others' intentions.
"Information from the external world is being transferred to the appropriate parts of Mr. Sharon's brain, " said Martin Monti, a professor from the Departments of Psychology and Neurosurgery at the University of California Los Angeles.
He goes on to say that his reason for studying the brain is because it is what determines the ways humans interact with the world.
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Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos--in short, they really could change the world.
As an active member of industry organizations that are seriously examining how neuroscience might contribute something beyond highly-subjective brain maps to marketers struggling to help their brands thrive in a ceaselessly evolving world, we have some sensitivity to results so flagrantly disconnected from marketplace realities.
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Scientists are already working on brain implants that help people with speech-impairing neurological conditions communicate with the outside world.
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