Tomonobu Nakayama, Deputy Director, MANA Principal Investigator and his international collaborators (Prof. Zdenka Kuncic from University of Sydney and Prof. James K. Gimzewski from CNSI, UCLA & MANA) have discovered the emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks.

The team found that the neuromorphic nanowire network exhibited emergent brain-like behaviour resembling cognitive functions such as learning, memorisation and forgetting when it's electrically stimulated. In the future, it is expected to have a significant contribution in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) networks.

This research was published online in Scientific Reports on October 17, 2019.

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