Week 7 | Neuroscience + Art

Neuroscience starts to become one of the most important fields of study in the biology and medicial studies. Surguries, brain imagining, as well as other biotechnologies help facilitate our understanding of our brains which contain great opportunities and secrets. From the ancient times when ancestors started exploring brains, to the well-developed scientific investigation on brains systematically nowadays, our recognition and knowledge about brains, neuroscience, memory, personalities, psychology, etc. are now becoming more and more comprehensive.


Neuroscience & Brain


Neuroscience is a kind of enlightenment tutor for me to further study sciences when I attended summer camp during secondary school. I selected the course Intro to Neuroscience when I was at Taft summer session, and I was strongly intrigues by the 3D mathematically built brain model during the demo of my instructor. That model seems to be a key that opens up my facination and expectation about the world of neuroscience. All those concepts related to memory, recognition, reaction, and psychology are brand new contents for my taht inspired my passions. Eventually, I finished this course with a creative and wonderful presentation about the memory part that I was most interested in.


Neuroscience&Brain Study Tool--fMRI

fMRI Image

During the composition of week4&5 blogs, I expressed my strong interest towards the mathematical modelling of the brain in a 3D platform, and the simulation of active neurons existed in the brains, because I consider this as a perfect combination of art&science tools with scientific knowledge and artistic illustrations that has unparallel potentials. This week after reading Bongco's article about memory and consciousness, as well as listening to Professor Vesna's lecture video, I found that the current investigation and knowledge about neuroscience have been improved to a very comprehensive level. Based on those materials, I firmly believe that the future direction of intergation between these theoretical fields of study with more sysmatic and formulated tools such as 3D-modelling, Instantaneous Simulation, EEG, fMRI and MRI should now be prioritized.


Brain&Neuron Simualtion

Through the integration between science itself and scientific tools and technologies, I believe that our understanding in this field can be further extended. Perhaps someday, we can fully excavate and develop all the hidden potentials in our brains!


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Referrences:

Brain Simulation Section
    https://www.brainsimulation.org/bsw/zwei/home

Cozens, Mercè, Looking at neuroscience: Why your brand might be in need of something different
    https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/resources/blog/looking-neuroscience-why-your-brand-might-be-need-something-different

Frontier Sceince News, Researchers find algorithm for large-scale brain simulations
    https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/03/02/neuroscience-brain-simulation-algorithm-exascale/

Hutton, Noah, The Fading Dream of the Computer Brain
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-fading-dream-of-the-computer-brain/

PsychCentral, All About Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
    https://psychcentral.com/lib/what-is-functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-fmri

Sparkes, Matthew, Video game graphics cards can simulate monkey brains on cheap
   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266304-video-game-graphics-cards-can-simulate-monkey-brains-on-the-cheap/

Vesna, Victoria, Week7 Lecture Part I-III, Neuroscience+Art, Spring 2022

Yamaura, Hiroshi, Simulation of a Human-Scale Cerebellar Network Model on the K Computer
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2020.00016/full

    

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