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NTT Research announced at an event that it has started a new AI basic research group, dubbed the Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group.

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A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

Scientists have recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway that transmits feelings of pain to the human brain, in a breakthrough that could lead to better treatments. A team at Stanford ...

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

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