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30th August 2014, 21:05
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Will we be able to connect our brains up to the Internet in the future?
Scientist in Thiruvananthapuram transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000
miles away in France's Strasbourg using brainwaves.
Brain-wave sensing machines have been used to 'telepathically' control everything from real-life helicopters to characters in a computer game. Now the technology has gone a step further by allowing someone in India to send an email to his colleague in France using nothing but the power of his mind.
A study published in PLOS One details how an international research team transmitted words from one person's brain to another by mapping electrical currents in the brain and the spine.
The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) headsets to record electrical activity from neurons firing in the brain, and convert the words 'hola' and 'ciao' into binary, reports The Daily Mail.
In EEG, electrical currents in the brain are linked with different thoughts that are then fed into a computer interface. This computer analyses the signal and controls an action. In the latest study, published in PLOS One, researchers decided to replace the computer interface with another brain to receive the signals.
CODED MESSAGE
In the initial test, the greeting was sent from a volunteer in Previously, EEG, India to Strasbourg, France.
There, a computer translated the message and then used electrical stimulation to implant it in the receiver's mind. Participants didn't report feeling anything in the process, and only saw flickers of light in their peripheral vision. The light appeared in sequences that allowed the receiver to decode the information in the message.
Researchers then conducted a similar experiment in which thoughts were successfully transmitted from two participants, one in Spain and one in France.
The results weren't perfect—in the second experiment, the error rate was 15 percent, 11 percent on the decoding end and 5 percent on the initial coding side—but it is remarkable progress. The technology was developed as part of a collaboration between the University of Barcelona in Spain, Axilum Robotics in France, Harvard Medical School and Starlab Barcelona in Spain.
BUDDING STUDY
Previously, EEG communication had proven successful with rats, but not with humans. Brain-tobrain transmission is still a budding area of study, but this marks a huge step: It's the first time humans have been able to drop messages into another brain using a machine. "We anticipate that computers in the not-so-distant future will interact directly with the human brain in a fluent manner, supporting both computer- and brain-to-brain communication routinely," the researchers wrote.
Human-to-brain technology is also gaining traction. In May, German scientists showed how seven pilots used mind control to fly with 'astonishing accuracy.
Source: http://www.punemirror.in/others/scitech/Mind-over-matter-Scientists-find-way-to-email-brainwave/articleshow/41212332.cms
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Will we be able to connect our brains up to the Internet in the future?
Scientist in Thiruvananthapuram transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000
miles away in France's Strasbourg using brainwaves.
Brain-wave sensing machines have been used to 'telepathically' control everything from real-life helicopters to characters in a computer game. Now the technology has gone a step further by allowing someone in India to send an email to his colleague in France using nothing but the power of his mind.
A study published in PLOS One details how an international research team transmitted words from one person's brain to another by mapping electrical currents in the brain and the spine.
The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) headsets to record electrical activity from neurons firing in the brain, and convert the words 'hola' and 'ciao' into binary, reports The Daily Mail.
In EEG, electrical currents in the brain are linked with different thoughts that are then fed into a computer interface. This computer analyses the signal and controls an action. In the latest study, published in PLOS One, researchers decided to replace the computer interface with another brain to receive the signals.
CODED MESSAGE
In the initial test, the greeting was sent from a volunteer in Previously, EEG, India to Strasbourg, France.
There, a computer translated the message and then used electrical stimulation to implant it in the receiver's mind. Participants didn't report feeling anything in the process, and only saw flickers of light in their peripheral vision. The light appeared in sequences that allowed the receiver to decode the information in the message.
Researchers then conducted a similar experiment in which thoughts were successfully transmitted from two participants, one in Spain and one in France.
The results weren't perfect—in the second experiment, the error rate was 15 percent, 11 percent on the decoding end and 5 percent on the initial coding side—but it is remarkable progress. The technology was developed as part of a collaboration between the University of Barcelona in Spain, Axilum Robotics in France, Harvard Medical School and Starlab Barcelona in Spain.
BUDDING STUDY
Previously, EEG communication had proven successful with rats, but not with humans. Brain-tobrain transmission is still a budding area of study, but this marks a huge step: It's the first time humans have been able to drop messages into another brain using a machine. "We anticipate that computers in the not-so-distant future will interact directly with the human brain in a fluent manner, supporting both computer- and brain-to-brain communication routinely," the researchers wrote.
Human-to-brain technology is also gaining traction. In May, German scientists showed how seven pilots used mind control to fly with 'astonishing accuracy.
Source: http://www.punemirror.in/others/scitech/Mind-over-matter-Scientists-find-way-to-email-brainwave/articleshow/41212332.cms
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