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Mind Reading
If rats can do it, we should be able to do it too.
A new computer program helps humans to do it. A new video game headband allows a person to use his mind to wag at rat's tail.
To send his command, he looks at a strobe light flickering on a computer screen, and a set of electrodes stuck to his scalp detects the activity in his brain. A computer processes and relays the electrodes' signal to an ultrasound machine over the rat's head, which delivers low-energy ultrasound pulses into the its brain, stimulating its motor cortex--the area that controls its movements. The pulses are aimed at area the size of a grain of rice that controls the rat's tail. It starts to wag.
A new computer program helps humans to do it. A new video game headband allows a person to use his mind to wag at rat's tail.
To send his command, he looks at a strobe light flickering on a computer screen, and a set of electrodes stuck to his scalp detects the activity in his brain. A computer processes and relays the electrodes' signal to an ultrasound machine over the rat's head, which delivers low-energy ultrasound pulses into the its brain, stimulating its motor cortex--the area that controls its movements. The pulses are aimed at area the size of a grain of rice that controls the rat's tail. It starts to wag.
Dwight A. Hunt, Sr. A+, MCP
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