Scientists at Tel Aviv University find a way to create memory through chemical stimulation
Posted on August 1, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
Category: Technology |
Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and his graduate student Itay Baruchi at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Exact Sciences have found that through chemical stimulation they are able to create imprinting in a man-made network of neurons, similar to the memory process in our brains.
This is one of the first steps towards creating a computer chip which processes information in a similar way to our brains. This biological computing would enable computers to function in ways they currently cannot. For example, while a computer often needs a complicated algorithm in order to detect patterns, humans and animals very easily pick up on them. If a computer could do this, technology, such as handwriting recognition, would be much more easily developed.
Ben-Jacob explained that this new technology, in the long run, might be capable of treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and even further down the road, epilepsy.
Ilana Teitelbaum, “Rebuilding minds”, The Jerusalem Post, August 1, 2007.
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