Professor seeks way to replicate brain patterns
By Greg Kline
Sunday August 26, 2007
Robin Scholz
University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering Professor Todd Coleman wears a cap with electrodes used on volunteers to read brain signals in his lab at the Beckman Institute in Urbana.
When the brain processes sound, neurons – signal-firing cells – spike, and in different ways, depending on factors such as whether the sound has a high or low pitch.
Vision, smell, hearing – this kind of "dynamic sensory information" – relies on neurons firing in various patterns.
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