Articles

The Brain - How Does it Compute?
Idan Segev
The brain is living proof that physical, chemical, and electrical components can display highly developed levels of intelligence. Compared with the brains of the simplest animals, artificial mechanisms like the GOLEM - whether software-designed or hardware-based - are highly primitive attempts to solve real-life problems. But how do the ten billion cells that make up the human brain control the functioning of the body, memory, emotions, and the performance of creative tasks?

* Prof. Idan Segev heads the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation at Hebrew University.

What Changes in the Brain When We Learn?
Idan Segev
We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of Recollecting, belongs. (Aristotle in his treatise On Memory and Reminiscence).

Scratches on the Brain
Ora Arif
It never occurs to us that the experiences people undergo in their lives are engraved on their brains. They leave actual physical marks, like scratches, and it seems that each of our brains is covered with scratches.

* Ora Arif is a science journalist.