Rat Cyborg Essay

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Informative Speech: Outline Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the origins, current applications, future applications and possible drawbacks of a digital cerebellum. Central Idea: This digital cerebellum can be help people who have brain damage cause by stokes or by other conditions, and also restore learning process that declines with age. INTRODUCTION A. B. Thesis statement: According to Linda Geddes in her New Scientist article “Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum” dated September 27, 2011. “ An artificial cerebellum has restored the lost brain function in rats, bringing the prospect of cyborg-style brain implants a step closer to reality.” C. Preview: So today am going to talk about a rat cyborgs digital cerebellum, by first telling you what a cerebellum is and the Origin the experiment, second its current applications, and third the future applications/possible drawbacks. ORIGINS OF THE EXPERIMENT A. Matti Mintz of Tel Aviv university and his collegues have, for the first time, used “digital cerebellum” to restore brain functions of rats that had previously been lost. B. Scientists at Tel Aviv University first damaged the rat’s cerebellum, the part of the brain involved in the coordination and timing of movements. i. The cerebellum also plays a role in attention and language The researchers then tried to train the impaired
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