Brain cells playing video games in the laboratory !

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What is the index of human intelligence? Language skills? Or the ability to analyze something deeply and make decisions? The answers to these questions are hidden in the magic box called the human brain. Scientists have repeatedly reached for this magic box to find answers to such questions. Various researches are constantly going on. But scientists have shown brain cells grown in the laboratory can spontaneously play video games.

Australian biotech startup 'Cortical Labs' has made such a world of science fiction a reality. Cortical Labs Chief Scientific Officer Brett Kagan and his team recently published the study in the journal Neuron. Their research showed that lab-grown human and mouse brain cells were able to 'spontaneously' play the once-invented video game 'Pong'.

At first, experimenters tutored a synthetic neuron network to play a interpretation of the antique hall game" Pong" by integrating the brain cells into an electrode array controlled by a computer program.

A synthetic minibrain made out of mortal and mouse neurons has successfully learned to play the videotape game" Pong" after experimenters hooked it up to a computer- controlled electrode array. It's the first time that brain cells insulated from an organism have completed a task like this, suggesting that similar literacy capability isn't limited to completely complete smarts locked inside creatures' craniums .

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Pong was one of the first videotape games to hit the request in 1972. Then a paddle on the screen is moved over and down to try to keep the ball in the center of the screen as much as possible. Each time one contender fails to put the ball on the paddle, the other gets a point.

Brett Kagan's platoon connected a computer to about,000 brain cells on several rows of electrodes. They named this system' DishBrain'. These electrodes are suitable to admit stimulation of the brain cells and shoot stimulation to the cells. Now in computer videotape games, a signal of the position of the paddle and the ball is transferred to the brain cells and the feedback of the brain is observed. At first, a stimulation of the brain cells aimlessly moving the paddle without aiming for the ball to hit or miss the paddle.

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Later, within five minutes of sending a signal to the brain cells that 'success is putting the ball in the paddle', it was able to play the game much like a human. But the difference is - where people think of themselves as playing a game, brain cells think of themselves as playing paddles. However, there is considerable doubt in the scientific community about how 'spontaneous' this brain function is.

However, this research is seen as a unique step in connecting the physical world with the biological world. Scientists are also seeing the potential for a revolutionary revolution in technology by testing the effectiveness of various drugs and combining the power of brain cells with silicon.