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MIT scientists crowdsource effort to map connections in the brain - The ...

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By Carolyn Y. Johnson Globe Staff
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July 16, 2012

When Sebastian Seung read that each day people around the world spend 600 years collectively playing Angry Birds, he saw not a huge waste, but a big opportunity. Seung, a professor of computational neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thought that if he could divert even a fraction of that attention to a game with a loftier goal, he could help create the “connectome” — a map of the vast number of connections in the brain that underlie vision, memory, and disease. For more from BostonGlobe.com, sign up or log in below Access the full articles and quality reporting of The Boston Globe at BostonGlobe.com Unlimited Access to BostonGlobe.com for 4 weeks for only 99¢. Sign up Get FREE access as part of your print subscription. Start here Click to continue reading this article or to log in to BostonGlobe.com.

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MIT researcher creates online game to gather help unlocking brain’s mysteries

Tags: Crowdsourcing, MIT, MIT researcher, online game, science, Sebastian Seung

Posted by Marco Torquati

Jul 16, 2012 06:56 am GMT Viewed 608 times

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