1. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 THE ELECTRIC BRAIN Kaushik Majumdar Systems Science and Informatics Unit Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre

2. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Satellite Image

3. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 An Object of Interest

4. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Event Related Potential Parra et al. NeuroImage, 28:326-341, 2005

5. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Neurotechnology for Intelligent Analyst  Funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of USA, 2006.  Aim: Identification of interesting objects, such as, tanks, trucks and boats in the grey level satellite images.

6. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Human Brain

7. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortex

8. Functional Division

9. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortical Columns Mountcastle, Brain, 120:701-722, 1997.

10. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Blue Brain Project  Partners IBM & Ecole Polytechnique, Lusanne, Switzerland.  Started in 2006

11. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Computer Generated Cortical Columns

12. 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.  10000 neurons. Markram, Nature Reviews of Neuroscience, 7:153-160, 2006

13. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Neuron

14. Nerve Cell vs. Body Cell

15. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Sodium-Potassium Pump

16. 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 ¯

17. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Ion Channels

18. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Channel: Chemical Activation

19. Action Potential First node of Ranvier

20. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Chemical-Electrical- Sequence

21. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Cortical Current Baillet et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 14-30, 2001

22. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Scalp Electrodes

23. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Human Scalp EEG

24. Brain Science Awareness Workshop, 15 March 2010 Statistical Discrimination Majumdar and Frank (unpublished)