Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 THE ELECTRIC BRAIN Kaushik Majumdar Systems Science and Informatics Unit Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Satellite Image
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 An Object of Interest
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Event Related Potential Parra et al. NeuroImage, 28: , 2005
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Neurotechnology for Intelligent Analyst Funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of USA, Aim: Identification of interesting objects, such as, tanks, trucks and boats in the grey level satellite images.
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Human Brain
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortex
Functional Division
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortical Columns Mountcastle, Brain, 120: , 1997.
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Blue Brain Project Partners IBM & Ecole Polytechnique, Lusanne, Switzerland. Started in 2006
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Computer Generated Cortical Columns
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Computer Generated Cortical Columns (cont.) 14 day old rat’s evolving brain. 0.5 mm in diameter. 1.5 mm in height. neurons. Markram, Nature Reviews of Neuroscience, 7: , 2006
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Neuron
Nerve Cell vs. Body Cell
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Sodium-Potassium Pump
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Membrane, Pumps and Ions Cell membrane Ion channel K+K+ Na + Na + -K + Pump Na + -K + pump Na + K+K+ Cl ¯
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Ion Channels
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Channel: Chemical Activation
Action Potential First node of Ranvier
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Chemical-Electrical- Sequence
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortical Current Baillet et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 14-30, 2001
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Scalp Electrodes
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Human Scalp EEG
Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Statistical Discrimination Majumdar and Frank (unpublished)