From Angry Birds to brain mapping: The Gamification of Neuroscience

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/06/11/from-angry-birds-to-brain-mapping-the-gamification-of-neuroscience/

Mouse Retinal Neurons (Type 25), per EyeWire Museum

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A Quarter Million Gamers Helped Build This Incredibly Detailed Map of the Brain (SingularityHub):

“In 2012, when Angry Birds was in its prime, Seung had an inspiration.

“What if,” he wondered, “we could capture even a small fraction of the mental effort that goes into Angry Birds (for brain mapping)? Think of what we could do.”

Although the initial idea was to use deep learning-base…

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