
A research team consisting of Associate Professor Hideaki Yamamoto (also affiliated with the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR)) and Professor Shigeo Sato of Tohoku University's Research Institute of Electrical Communication, and Professor Yuichi Katori of Future University Hakodate, has constructed an experimental system that incorporates cultured rat cerebral cortical neurons cultured in a microfluidic device into a machine learning method called reservoir computing.