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Most people smoke crack although there are some who inject it. In fact, the risk is high for overdose when it comes to crack, as even first-time users can overdose.Ĭrack, an illegal Schedule II drug, has a very high potential for abuse that can quickly lead to physical and psychological dependence. This is so because it is at least 75 percent pure. It’s more powerful than cocaine, and it’s also riskier.
Users heat crack and then smoke it, usually from a glass pipe. It’s the crystalized form of powder cocaine. Journal reference: Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.Crack cocaine is a very strong central nervous stimulant that comes from cocaine. “If it works well in the brain maybe it will work well in silicon.” Decoding how the brain works will probably lead to better artificial intelligence, says Just. “I’d love to understand how adding an adjective modifies the neural representation of rabbit.”Įventually the hope is that the method will help understand the patterns in the brain, and how thoughts are constructed. “If I said ‘the fast rabbit’ versus ‘the hungry rabbit’, you think two different meanings,” says Mitchell. Adjectives and even phrases will present even more of a challenge. The team is currently testing whether it can predict how the brain will respond to nouns like “love” and “democracy”. Less clear is how the brain responds to abstract nouns, Mitchell says. “I think it says a lot about the way concepts are built up out of experience.”īrain areas involved in taste, for instance, tended to light up when subjects viewed the word “apple”. But using this linguistic shortcut, you can deduce the meaning of a word based on it relation to a known verb.Įxtracting a word’s meaning from its relation to verbs also offers insight into how our brain represents objects, says Sean Polyn, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “The brute force way is to measure the pattern of brain activity associated with each thought one wants to read out,” he says. John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, says the approach sidesteps one challenge of brain reading:
“I think if you did ‘kumquat’ and ‘balloon’, it really should work.” ‘Love’ response The researchers could only confirm the model’s accuracy for words they had gathered brain scans for, but other nouns should be no different, Just says. It ranked all the words in order from best match to worst, and averaged over nine people, placed the correct brain image in the top 300, far exceeding chance. Next the program had to predict the correct scan from one word out of 1000 new words. The program beat the odds and matched predicted brain scans to the noun 77% of the time. We want to understand the principle by which the brain represents things,” Just says.Īs a first test, the computer program was challenged to predict brain scans of two out of the 60 test words, based on brain images from the other 58 – a 50/50 proposition. “We don’t want to do fMRI studies of all 50,000 words in English, then move on to other languages. The words belonged to 12 categories, such as animals, vegetables and vehicles.īased on these 60 brain scans and the trillion-word library, Mitchell and Just created a computer program for each volunteer that predicts how their brain will respond to any concrete noun. They used a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which measures activity of the working brain via changes in blood flow.
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