Artificial neurons may be the key to curing many diseases, and scientists have successfully developed a way to build a prototype made from ultra thin graphene slits that house a single layer of water molecules. The team will now attempt to prove that these novel systems can execute basic learning algorithms that, in turn, may become a foundation for providing electric memory recall through artificial neurons. Read more for a video of another kind of artificial neuron and additional information.
Since these artificial neurons, or synthetic brain cells, can hold cellular “memories” for milliseconds, this could one day lead to computers that work exactly like the human brain. They use charged particles called ions to produce an electrical signal, in the same way that information gets transmitted between neurons in your brain. When the research team conducted a simulation linking two channels and other components to mimic the behavior of a neuron, they discovered it could generate spikes in electrical activity, while remembering consistent properties in two different states.
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To my knowledge, it’s the first time that people [have done] this with ions. In physics, two dimensions is very weird. So you expect new things to occur,” said Lydéric Bocquet, study co-author and physicist at the École Normale Supérieure.
