Month: September 2022

LONG DISTANCE COLLABORATION. "Dr. Nicolelis added a touch of international drama by locating one rat at Duke, in North Carolina, and another in Natal, Brazil. Similarly, in his earlier work, he had a monkey in North Carolina operate a robotic arm in Japan." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/science/new-research-suggests-two-rat-brains-can-be-linked.html View in LinkedIn

NOVEL NERVOUS SYSTEM. “It’s not telepathy. It’s not the Borg...But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.” http://www.nature.com/news/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats-1.12522 View in LinkedIn

TRAINING. "Nicolelis argues that even in this simple task, the rats showed some interesting emergent behaviours. Because the encoder always got an extra reward if the decoder chose correctly, it started making movements that were cleaner, smoother and faster than at the beginning. That increased the signal-to-noise ratio in its brain activity and inadvertently provided the decoder with signals that were easier to decipher." http://www.nature.com/news/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats-1.12522 View in LinkedIn

BRAIN NET. "He says his wired rat duo show that the linking of mammalian brains is possible, but why stop at just two? "I could see a swarm of rats be informed by one rat. Most of them driving to the source based on information from another individual," a concept he calls a "Brain Net."" http://www.nbcnews.com/science/two-rats-thousands-miles-apart-cooperate-telepathically-brain-implant-1C8608274 View in LinkedIn

SENSATE SHARING. "The rat study was even weirder. For this one, the neuroscientists directly wired four rats’ brains together—using the implants to both collect and transmit information about neural activity—so one rat that responded to touch, for example, could pass on their knowledge of that stimulus to another rat." http://www.wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey-brains-together/ View in LinkedIn

BRAIN NETS. "Then the researchers set the rats to a bunch of different abstract tasks—guessing whether it might rain from temperature and air pressure data, for example, or telling the difference between different kinds of touch-stimuli. The brain collectives always did at least as well on those tests as an individual rat would have, and sometimes even better." http://www.wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey-brains-together/ View in LinkedIn