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Tuesday 1 January 2019

Brains of 3 People Have Been Connected, Allowing Them to Share Thoughts

News Punch: The three-way brain experiment has so far allowed participants to play a Tetris-style game, and could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people in the near future.

Sciencealert.com reports: It works through a combination of electroencephalograms (EEGs), for recording the electrical impulses that indicate brain activity, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), where neurons are stimulated using magnetic fields. The researchers behind the system have dubbed it BrainNet, and say it could eventually be used to connect many different minds together, even across the web.

But apart from opening up strange new methods of communication, BrainNet could actually teach us more about how the human brain functions on a deeper level....read more>>>...