Brain Implant Lets One Monkey Control Another
In work inspired partly by the movie “Avatar,” one monkey could control the body of another monkey using thought alone by connecting the brain of the [...]
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A New Map of the Brain: Top/Bottom
Who hasn’t heard that people are either left-brained or right-brained—either analytical and logical or artistic and intuitive, based on the relative [...]
Mind-Reading Experiment To Send Thoughts Over the Internet has Failed
University of Peoria graduate student Jose Rodriguez, the experiment’s “reciever,” wears a cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine that [...]
Abnormal neuroscience: Scanning psychopaths for Empathy
Are their brains not wired to feel what others feel, or do they just not care? Alison Abbott joins researchers looking into normal neurobiology through the scope of [...]
Brain scans pinpoint individuals from a crowd
Patterns of neural circuitry in the brain’s frontal and parietal lobes can be used to distinguish individuals on the basis of their brain scans. Our brains are wired in [...]