Toward Studying Cognition in a Dish
| Autor: | Nirosha J. Murugan, David L. Kaplan, Nicolas Rouleau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cognitive science
Cognitive Neuroscience 05 social sciences Information processing Brain Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Neural tissues Article 050105 experimental psychology Neural tissue engineering 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Artificial brain 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Trends Cogn Sci |
| ISSN: | 1364-6613 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.005 |
| Popis: | Bioengineered neural tissues help advance our understanding of neurodevelopment, regeneration, and neural disease; however, it remains unclear whether they can replicate higher-order functions including cognition. Building upon technical achievements in the fields of biomaterials, tissue engineering, and cell biology, investigators have generated an assortment of artificial brain structures and co-cultured circuits. Though they have displayed basic electrochemical signaling, their capacities to generate minimal patterns of information processing suggestive of high-order cognitive analogues have not yet been explored. Here, we review the current state of neural tissue engineering and consider the possibility of a study of cognition in vitro. We adopt a practical definition of minimal cognition, anticipate problems of measurement, and discuss solutions toward a study of cognition in a dish. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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