Monthly Archives: February 2012
Ape me!New insights for robot learning from studies of the primate brain
Monkeys and chimps have quite similar brains to our own. Our evolutionary cousins’ frontal and parietal mirror systems map the actions of others onto the observer’s own actions, a mapping that is probably responsible for “imitation” behavior. The underlying neurological … Continue reading
Filed under Technologies
The woman who remembered everything
Human memory is different from computer memory in many important ways. Computers store information in specific locations. While there are ways of storing meta-data with each piece of information, computer memory is very limited when it comes to context. For … Continue reading
Filed under Brain and consciousness
