Abstract

Brain Physics: New Signals from the Brain

The human brain is arguably the most complex structure known to mankind. How do our brains compute? How fast do they compute? How do they store information? How universal is all of this? There is clearly a tremendous opportunity here for physicists: Understanding the brain will clearly require physics. Understanding the physics of the brain will clearly enrich physics. The proper domain of physics is to understand all natural phenomena—that’s why Newton called it Natural Philosophy. We recently discovered new broadband signals from the brain.  These signals open a new experimental approach to these age-old questions---there is real physics to be done on the brain today and tomorrow. As a first step, we separate and study the brain’s computational signals that control the movement of each finger.

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