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I can see the visual cortex doing lots of work, and I'm not sure but I
suppose the inner orange dots are the hippocampi. The parietal seems not
too busy. Are you simulating the amygdalas too? Is the prefrontal doing
anything interesting with the data?
+InnovumTechnology this simulation is limited to: retina, thalamus (including reticular thalamic nucleus) and cortex. In principle, other subcortical nuclei could be simulated as well, but this is still to be done.+HunsV, the lack of parietal activity is due to lack of other inputs than just from V1 (area 17).
Hi Ivan! Very impressive and beautiful simulation! Have you had any
feedback from brain and neuro researchers regarding any practical benefits
of this simulation, especially when it gets larger and larger? How is the
speed of the simulation of this magnitude with the system you used here?
Also regards to Jim and Richard, hope you all doing good. :)
Hi Juha! Great to hear from you :-) I'm working on more elaborate simulation of the visual system which might be used as a starting point for interesting experiments. As for the speed, this particular simulation was not really running fast: less than 1/1000 real-time, but this is mostly due to its size which required lots of virtual memory. When run on GPUs, one GTX TITAN can deal with approx 1 million neurons in real-time. Will send regards to Jim and Richard :-)
Nice work. I'd like to see it actually do something though. It's great to
say that you've run a simulation of this size, but it's much more
impressive to say that it's functional.
Thanks! We're working on a visual system (object and movement recognition), as you could imagine, the task is quite challenging but we are making progress.
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