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| Jun 06, 2016
Wikipedia, the open-content, online encyclopedia produced by the collaborative efforts of a worldwide community, is one of the most frequently visited websites, yet some say that many of its entries lack a sound scientific basis. To improve the platform’s content in its particular knowledge area, the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RDIC-NeuroMat), one of the RIDCs funded by FAPESP, has set up a task force of journalists and scientists to edit Wikipedia entries and to add new information. Report by Diego Freire, Agência FAPESP, 5/25/2016.
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| Jun 06, 2016
The Wikipedia has knowingly attracted a vast audience and henceforth has had a major impact on disseminating science. In order to improve the content of this electronic encyclopedia, the Wiki Education Foundation --a nonprofit organization which works on filling content gaps on Wikipedia-- launched in 2016 the "Year of Science" on the encyclopedia. This effort was exclusive to North America. Yet, the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat), at USP, launched its own "Year of Science" on Wikipedia. Report by Tabita Said, Jornal da USP, 5/30/2016. (In Portuguese.)
Mathematical simplicity and biological plausibility. The combining of these two axes is at the core of the inception and development of FAPESP’s Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat). “Without biology, mathematicians can at most generate nice models, that could have internal coherence, but remain absolutely useless to provide a conceptual framework for neuroscience. Without mathematics, neuroscientists are unable to move to a higher level of abstraction and could fall into the trap of driving all their scientific power to gather minute details that have little to inform to a systemic understanding of neural nets,” said NeuroMat’s coordinator, Antonio Galves.
João Guilherme Ferreira Campos, Ariadne de Andrade Costa, Mauro Copelli, Osame Kinouchi
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| May 24, 2016
On May 15, the member of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) André Frazão Helene and colleagues published "On Sequence Learning Models: Open-loop Control Not Strictly Guided by Hick’s Law", on Scientific Reports, a journal of Nature's group. "The meaning is that the nervous system, relying on past experiences, generates predictions on what will happen in the future," the researcher explained. Report by Tabita Said, Jornal da USP, 5/23/2016. (In Portuguese).
