Mind and Matter: Modeling the Human Brain With Machine Learning - Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers created a new human brain model using machine learning-based optimization of required user profile information. We all like to think that we know ourselves best, but, given that our brain activity is largely governed by our subconscious mind, it is probably our brain that knows us better! While this is only a hypothesis, researchers from Japan have already proposed a content recommendation system that assumes this to be true. Essentially, such a system makes use of its user's brain signals (acquired using, say, an MRI scan) when exposed to particular content and eventually, by exploring various users and contents, builds up a general model of brain activity. "Once we obtain the'ultimate' brain model, we should be able to perfectly estimate the brain activity of a person exposed to a specific content," says Prof. Ryoichi Shinkuma from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, who was a part of the team that came up with the idea.