Discuss how two new projects (launched in 2013) will advance knowledge of the brain based on the study of how neurons are functionally linked
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Two new ambitious projects, both launched in 2013, will greatly expand our knowledge of brain function by studying via different approaches of how neurons are functionally linked. The BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), commonly referred to as the Brain Activity Map Project, is a United States–led collaborative 10-year research project with the goal of developing new technologies to advance our understanding of brain activity by realtime mapping of thousands or millions of neurons working together in coordinated networks. The European Commission launched the Human Brain Project, a 10-year initiative involving about 130 universities around the world to create a supercomputer simulation of the human brain. To mimic the complexity of the human brain, this digital brain will eventually require computers thousands of times more powerful than those available today.
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