Thursday, October 18, 2018

Brain to brain connection

Today's encore selection -- from  "When Two Brains Connect" by Rajesh P.N. Rao and Andrea Stocco. 

Rajesh P.N. Rao, Director of the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) and the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Andrea Stocco,  Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, are the first to successfully allow one human brain to communicate an intention directly to another human brain:

"Technologies known as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are now beginning to allow paralyzed individuals to control, say, a computer cursor or a prosthetic limb with their brain signals. ... In 2010 one of us (Rao) had a realization: perhaps we could use this same principle to beam thoughts from one human brain to another. Imagine if a teacher could convey a mathematical proof to your brain, nonverbally. Or perhaps a medical student could learn a complex surgical skill straight from a mentor's mind. ... In short, we would use one person's brain data to produce a specific pattern of neural activity in another individual. .../.../

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