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FOUR RATS SOLVING WEATHER DATA. "In a second experiment, the brains of four rats were wired together in a “brain net”, enabling the rodents to synchronise their neuronal activity and collaboratively solve a simple weather forecasting problem that individual rats struggled to complete." Fire the weatherman. https://lnkd.in/d4cvbWC View in LinkedIn

RAT WEATHERMAN, "In a third experiment, rats were given different temperature and pressure readings associated with “early evening spring thunderstorms in North Carolina.” By combining their data through the neural network, the rats outputted information that the researchers could then translate into weather predictions with, they write, “accuracy which was much higher than chance.” https://lnkd.in/dX8Qg7M View in LinkedIn

ABSTRACT THOUGHT. "I think it will be possible one day to transfer an abstract thought.” https://lnkd.in/dtH9-QG View in LinkedIn

DISTANT SENSE SHARING. "Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, says that this system allows one rat to use the senses of another, incorporating information from its far-away partner into its own representation of the world." https://lnkd.in/dT67VjJ View in LinkedIn

EXPLOSIVE NEWS. "First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power. Pairs of rats were even able to cooperate across continents using cyberspace. Brain signals from an encoder rat at the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal in Brazil were sent to a decoder in Nicolelis’s lab in North Carolina via the internet. Though there was a slight transmission delay, the decoder rat still performed with an accuracy similar to those of rats in closer proximity with encoders." https://lnkd.in/dtH9-QG View in LinkedIn

RAT TELEPATHY. "The world’s first brain-to-brain connection has given rats the power to communicate by thought alone. An array of microelectrodes – each about one-hundredth the width of a human hair – was then implanted in the encoder rats’ primary motor cortex, an area of the brain that processes movement. The team used the implant to record the neuronal activity that occurs just before the rat made a decision in the lever task." (2013, first of its kind). https://lnkd.in/dtH9-QG View in LinkedIn