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Addressing the Human Brain's Big Data Challenge With Brainx3
Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University's Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive, and Cognitive Systems lab have developed a platform for visualizing, simulating, analyzing, and interacting with massive amounts of data.
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Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University's Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive, and Cognitive Systems (SPECS) lab have developed BrainX3, a platform for visualizing, simulating, analyzing, and interacting with massive amounts of data.
BrainX3 combines computational power with human intuition in representing and interacting with large complex networks. The platform serves as a hypothesis generator of big data.
The team has used BrainX3 to reconstruct a large-scale simulation of human brain activity in a three-dimensional virtual reality environment, including the neuronal activity of the entire cortex in the resting state.
Users can interact with BrainX3 in real time, while the immersive mixed and virtual reality space enables users to explore and analyze dynamic activity patterns of brain networks both at rest and during tasks, or for finding signaling pathways associated with brain function and/or dysfunction or as a tool for virtual neurosurgery.
The researchers also have simulated neural activity from lesioned brains and activity resulting from transcranial magnetic stimulation perturbations. The data on brain activity in these states could be used to assess levels of consciousness in patients with severe brain injury.
From Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
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