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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your pilot, Captain Brain speaking…

October 24, 2004



Probably one of the coolest things I’ve read about in awhile. Studying brain activity through a flight simulator. Posted by Hello

“It’s essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a grid at the bottom,” DeMarse said. “Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network – a brain.”

(Image borrowed from “Creating Flat Maps of the Human Brain”.)

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