Rodrigo Quian Quiroga is a neuroscientist at the University of Leicester UK. He holds a research chair and is the director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the head of the bioengineering at the University of Leicester. In 2010, he obtained the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His main research interest is on the study of the principles of visual perception and memory. Together with colleagues at Caltech and UCLA, he discovered what has been named "concept cells" or "Jennifer Aniston neurons"?neurons in the human brain that play a key role in memory formation.
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El neurocientífico Rodrigo Quian Quiroga cuenta cómo la neurociencia está llegando adonde solo creíamos que podía llegar la ciencia ficción: borrar o implantar recuerdos, implantar prótesis neuronales o la posibilidad de leer la mente ya no pert... SEE MORE