It consists of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer with individual microchips each programmed to act like a single neuron. The computer simulates a single neocortical column, a minuscule slice of brain tissue that consisting of 10,000 neurons and their 30 million interconnections. Researchers at the Swiss university that partnered with IBM on the project used painstaking research to discover and model how the real neurons in a neocortical column in a two-week old rat work.
A forest of neurons. A dye is injected into each neuron and then developed in order to reveal the morphology. This image shows a minute fraction of the cells and connections within the microcircuitry of the neocortex.
A forest of neurons. A dye is injected into each neuron and then developed in order to reveal the morphology. This image shows a minute fraction of the cells and connections within the microcircuitry of the neocortex.
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