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“EyeWire is a game to map the brain from the Seung Lab at MIT. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Over 130,000 people from 145 countries play. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons; advancing our quest to understand ourselves.”

I have started playing this game to learn more about the structure of neurons as well as how best to implement citizen science.  I have created this set of posts which I am using to capture 1- My scores 2- Chat conversations and 3- Ideas on how to better motivate game players (eyewirers) 4- How to apply what I learn about playing the game…. more

By joining EyeWire, you can help map the connectome, starting with connections between retinal neurons. EyeWire gameplay advances neuroscience by helping researchers discover how neurons connect and network to process information. You also help the EyeWire team, based at MIT, develop advanced artificial intelligence and computational technologies for mapping the connectome.

Sebastian Seung’s blog post Play EyeWire and Contribute to Neuroscience Research at MIT Introductory Tutorials on YouTube Wikipedia Entry

Nice summary by Times-Tribune reporter, Kevin O’Neill, who actually tried ...

The  Dolan DNA Learning Center based at  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has developed a Simple Mapper to power a web site on the brain (www.g2conline.org).

“You can use it to organize what comes out of yours.”

and applied to neuroscience at this Cold Springs Harbor website 

Simpler Mapping applied to neuroscience

Mason News May 22, 2013 by Michele McDonald

Renowned neuroscientist Giorgio Ascoli is working on another complexity related to the brain — how to handle the massive amount of data researchers are creating on a near-daily basis.

Neuroscientist Giorgio AscoliCreative Services photo

The George Mason University researcher is the lead investigator on a grant from the prestigious National Academies Keck Futures Initiative that is a step toward giving researchers another tool in their work. It’s a data overload worth organizing because, as Ascoli points out, such a “knowledge base” could reveal patterns, show untapped areas for future research and cut duplication.

“You identify what you do not know,” says Ascoli, who is a University Professor in the Molecular Neuroscience Department and the founding director of the Center for Neural Informatics, Structures and Plasticity at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. “You also create a map of what is known and what is not known.”

The knowledge base for brain data dovetails with the White House’s recent BRAIN Initiative. “The BRAIN Initiative is trying to do with the brain what the Human Genome Project did with genes,” Ascoli says.

Researchers are hard at work publishing scores of articles in hundreds of journals ...

Eric Kandel of Columbia University, Thomas Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health,William Newsome of Stanford University, Story Landis of the National Institute of Health, Cornelia Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University…. Charlie Rose back to camera.

Kavli Foundation catalyst for the Brain Initiative.

Segment starting around minute 42.. Rose says needs to be a public information project…facilitate “sharing of knowledge”

Brain Initiative discussed on Charley Rose Show.

Recommended and post by KurzweilAI net

The brain bank science blog (by a group of Manchester, UK-based scientists) has posted 12 images from 2013 that are as much fantastic works of art as neuroscience. Shown here: “Brainbow,” a transgenic system designed to label different types of brain cells in a festive panoply of colors.  More

(Credit: Cai et al. Nature Methods)