India, Aug. 1 -- Reconstructing the brain's deeply folded surface in real time requires enormous numbers of calculations. Researchers in China have now developed a chip that performs this work in less than 10 milliseconds, a speed they say is comparable to the functioning pace of the human brain.

The research was led by Yuchao Yang of Peking University, in collaboration with scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The findings were published in Science under the title "A sub-10-millisecond neural dynamical system based on phase-change memristors."

Neural dynamical systems pair neural networks with mathematical equations that track how complex systems evolve over time. ...