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#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Petra #Ritter: “The #simulation of #brains

Ms. Ritter is co-founder and leader of the co-design project “The #Virtual #Brain”, which is part of the #European #Open #Science #Cloud (EOSC) and “is a #neuroinformatics platform for the #simulation of complete #brain networks using biologically realistic #connectivity.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/XrTWh0n8yDY

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Petra #Ritter: “The #simulation of #brains

Ms. Ritter is co-founder and leader of the co-design project “The #Virtual #Brain”, which is part of the #European #Open #Science #Cloud (EOSC) and “is a #neuroinformatics platform for the #simulation of complete #brain networks using biologically realistic #connectivity.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/XrTWh0n8yDY

Facebook can read your mind! (but only if you want it to)

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

Facebook/Meta is the latest organisation to claim they can use AI to 'read minds' via brain activity. But both such claims and the fearful reactions seriously overlook how tricky the brain makes this.

Dean Burnett's latest post looks at how neuroscientific misunderstandings lead to dubious media coverage.

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Facebook can read your mind! (but only if you want it to)By Dean Burnett

Humans have been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain dating back to at least ancient Greece. Yet a scientist observing a female and male brain in a lab can’t tell them apart. "I'm not aware of any measure you can make of the human brain where the male and female distributions don't overlap," Dr. Armin Raznahan told Live Science. That said, the question of how male and female brains differ may still matter. @LiveScience has more:

flip.it/iCwGqz

Live Science · Is there really a difference between male and female brains? Emerging science is revealing the answer.By Nicoletta Lanese

I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'.

‘Brain rot’ was named Oxford's word of the year for 2024, defined as the "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state" resulting from watching too much "trivial or unchallenging" content online, such as TikTok videos.

A recent study suggests bingeing short-form videos is bad for your grey matter.

mediafaro.org/article/20250223

BBC Science Focus Magazine · I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'