We're interested in studying how brains compute.

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Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network -- a brain.

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There's a lot of data out there that will tell you that the computation that's going on here isn't based on just one neuron. The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds of thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the amazing processing power of the brain.

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If we extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition we can apply that to create novel computing systems.

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It's essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a dish at the bottom.

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