The project, hailed by colleagues as a synthesis of various research techniques, was an attempt to study cognition by combining mathematical modeling, computer graphics, signal processing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and electroencephalography, or EEG recording. "His work represents the direction that brain science is going, and he represents the forefront," say Richard Dasheiff, director of the University of Pittsburgh Epilepsy Center. Yet the fact that it took Gevins six years is also an indication of how much further the field needs to advance to make efficient use of the available technologies.
Leaders in neuroscience say technological advances over the past decade--especially in molecular and imaging approaches to the brain--have fueled an explosion in knowledge about the nervous system. But they lament the lack of adequate means for analyzing and putting together data generated through these technologies. A common complaint is that all these new findings have yet to yield a ...
