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The Nobel Prize winner Edvard Moser presents the new IBEC neuroengineering group SPECS-lab
IBEC has presented the new group of Neuroengineering, SPECS, led by Professor ICREA Paul Verschure, in an act with Edvard Moser, the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2014.
BCBT 2017
Its total immersion on the neural basis of consciousness, learning and memory and behaviour at BCBT2017, the 10th edition of the school! BCBT is a two-week annual international summer school positioned at the interface between neurosciences, biology and future and emerging technologies with an emphasis on the principles underlying brains and their translation to avant-garde technologies.
A Spatial-Context Effect in Recognition Memory
In this study, we computationally address the question of (i) border cells' scale from the perspective of their role in maintaining the regularity of grid cells' firing fields, as well as (ii) what are the underlying mechanisms of grid-border associations relative to the scales of both grid and border cells. Our results suggest that for optimal contribution to grid cells' error minimization, border cells should express smaller firing fields relative to those of the associated grid cells, which is consistent with the hypothesis of border cells functioning as spatial anchoring signals.
Living Machines 2017
LM2017 kicks off with workshops addressing bio-inspiration, the evo-devo of robotics and brain architecture for living machines. The 6th editions of Living Machines takes place on the beautiful campus of Stanford University at the Peterson Building of Engineering and Design.
SPECS present Vinyl Bot at the Maker fair and Sonar+D
SPECS present Vinyl Bot at the Maker fair and [...]
SPECS at Maker Faire 2017!
Everything is ready for the Barcelona edition of Maker Faire 2017! The event takes place today 17th of June at the “Pavelló Italià” and “Caixa Fòrum” near Plaça de España. SPECS will be presenting several behaving robots in relation to the project socSMCS http://socsmcs.eu/