Month: September 2022

CALIBRATION. “Bamford and colleagues used the known input and output properties of the cerebellum to guide the development of a prototype chip fabricated as a microcircuit. Real data from anaestethized animals were used calibration and training. The circuit could be “conditioned in a manner very similar to that of a real intact cerebellum” thus establishing partial brain function replication using BMI.” (BMI = brain machine interface). https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

RECOVERY OF LOST FUNCTION. “Herreros and colleagues successfully connected to the brain of an anesthetized rat as a “step toward the development of neuro-prostheses that could recover lost learning functions in animals and, in the longer term, humans”. https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

EXTENSION. “Brain-machine interface concepts could be extended to brain-to-brain interfaces for shared information processing.” https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

ELECTRIC TELEPATHY. “In this compelling research, two rats had electrode arrays implanted into the sensorimotor areas. One rat served as an “encoder” of sensorimotor information during performance of either a tactile or visual task. The cortical activity generated in the brain of the “encoder rat” was monitored and then relayed to a second “receiving” or “decoder” rat, located in a distant laboratory.” https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

TELEPATHY. “The distant “decoder rat” was taught by the neural traffic generated by the initial activity of the “encoder rat” and relayed by the direct brain-to-brain coupling afforded in this novel “artificial communication channel”. This shows that rats linked through brain-to-brain electrode arrays could learn complex, cooperative, goal-directed behaviors.” https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

TWO WAY. “Connecting a machine so the human operator can access the functional capacity of the machine also allows the machine access to the functional capacity of the human.” https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFIED BRAINS. “Future think: cautiously optimistic about brain augmentation using tissue engineering and machine interface...technologies used for brain augmentation in restoration can also amplify the range of human abilities in those without pathology.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED HUMANS. “Technological augmentation of so-called “normal” human function moves us away from the functional limitations of our species and closer to “super” human function.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFICATION. “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): recent clinical applications in otherwise “healthy people” are widening. These include enhancing attention and vigilance, motor learning and various methods to “… improve attention, perception, memory and other forms of cognition…” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

CHEATING EVOLUTION. “Future applications of emerging technology can continue to shift us from our subspecies of homo sapiens sapiens to the transformative homo sapiens technologicus—a species that uses, fuses and integrates technology to enhance its own function.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn