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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) is working on the development of a biological cell neuroprocesador be able to control robotic devices.
The line of work of the research group in electronic design and signal processing techniques, in collaboration with the Institute of Bioengineering UMH, has resulted in the doctoral thesis of telecommunications engineer Víctor Lorente, who obtained excellent cum laude.
Lorente research, led by José Manuel Ferrández and co-directed by Francisco Javier Garrigós, focused on learning techniques in neuronal cultures for functional connections that can communicate with a robot.
The dissertation thus proposes a new computational paradigm based on Hebbian natural learning method and classical behaviorism.
Utilizing microelectrode arrays were stimulated couples simultaneously mouse hippocampal cells to increase their connection.
The result is a "processing, instead of with silicon transistors, operates neurons" Ferrández explained.
Researchers are also studying if they can, with drugs, prolong the connections between cells, which might be applicable for the treatment of degenerative diseases.
The thesis compiles 28 articles published by Lorente, four of them in the toe Neuromputing magazine.
The young researcher won last year's Best Paper Award of the International Congress Future Computing.
Source: UPCT
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