What is the goal of the Human Brain Project?

The primary objective of the HBP is to create an ICT-based research infrastructure for brain research, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing, which can be used by researchers world-wide. The Project is divided into 12 Subprojects.

Why is it important to understand the human brain?

The brain is the most complex part in the human body. Remodeling its circuitry with each new experience – our brain makes us who we are, enabling us to perceive beauty, teach our children, remember loved ones, react against injustice, learn from history, and imagine a different future.

Do humans understand how the brain works?

“We know very little about the brain. We know about connections, but we don’t know how information is processed,” she said. Learning, for example, doesn’t just require good memory, but also depends on speed, creativity, attention, focus, and, most importantly, flexibility.

Is the human brain Project still going?

In its final phase (April 2020 – March 2023) the HBP’s focus is to advance three core scientific areas – brain networks, their role in consciousness, and artificial neural nets – while further expanding EBRAINS.

What do we understand about the brain?

The main organ of the human nervous system, the brain manages most of our bodies’ activities and processes information received from both outside and inside the body and is the very seat of our emotions and cognitive abilities, including thought, long- and short-term memory, and decision-making.

How does the brain understand?

Information processing starts with input from the sensory organs, which transform physical stimuli such as touch, heat, sound waves, or photons of light into electrochemical signals. The sensory information is repeatedly transformed by the algorithms of the brain in both bottom-up and top-down processing.