A research paper by scientists from Tsinghua University presented a novel text sequence stimulation paradigm that combines periodic visual stimulation with orthographic information and elicits distinct occipital and occipitotemporal scalp response patterns relative to conventional brightness flicker.

The new research paper, published on Jun. 15 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, developed a novel text sequence stimulation paradigm that dramatically improves user comfort without sacrificing performance.

Thomas Pock, head of the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project EAGLE – Efficient Algorithms for Generative Learning. In his research, the computer scientist aims to develop novel generative learning methods and algorithms. He will receive funding of 2.5 million euros for this, with the project running for five years.

Scientists at the Simon Foundation’s Flatiron Institute have modeled the strange dynamics of supersize fruit fly sperm, which swim about in a storage organ one-tenth the length of a single sperm. A new paper published June 22 in the journal Nature Physics shows how researchers combined mathematical models with more traditional biological approaches to find that, unlike human sperm, fruit fly sperm propel themselves off each other to create a slow collective churn.