1. Can We Copy the Brain?

from the IEEE Spectrum Special Report about AI and Brain Inspired Computing.

From Macro to Micro: A Visual Guide to the Brain

Why We Should Copy the Brain

In the Future, Machines Will Borrow Our Brain’s Best Tricks

The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else

What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex

How to Digitize a Rat Brain

AI Designers Find Inspiration in Rat Brains

The Human Brain Project Reboots: A Search Engine for the Brain Is in Sight

We Could Build an Artificial Brain Right Now

Neuromorphic Chips Are Destined for Deep Learning—or Obscurity

Watch This Robot Navigate Like a Rat

Why Rat-Brained Robots Are So Good at Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain

Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?

Henry Markram Talks Brain Simulation

For further info, please visit IEEE Spectrum

2. MIT Announced The Launch of The MIT Intelligence Quest (IQ)

Forging connections between human and machine intelligence research, its applications, and its bearing on society.

How does human intelligence work, in engineering terms?

And how can we use that deep grasp of human intelligence to build wiser and more useful machines, to the benefit of society?

For further info, please visit MIT IQ, MIT News

3. Focus on Spatial Cognition

A special issue in Nature Neuroscience 

Spatial representation in the hippocampal formation: a history

Viewpoints: how the hippocampus contributes to memory, navigation and cognition

Our sense of direction: progress, controversies and challenges

Cell types for our sense of location: where we are and where we are going

Synaptic integrative mechanisms for spatial cognition

For further more info, please visit Nature Neuroscience