https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRDc714W5I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

University of Washington researchers
have performed what they believe is
the first noninvasive human-to-
human brain interface , with one
researcher able to send a brain signal
via the Internet to control the hand
motions of a fellow researcher.

University of Washington researcher
Rajesh Rao, left, plays a computer
game with his mind. Across campus,
researcher Andrea Stocco, right,
wears a magnetic stimulation coil over
the left motor cortex region of his
brain. Stocco’s right index finger
moved involuntarily to hit the “fire”
button as part of the first human
brain-to-brain interface
demonstration.
Using electrical brain recordings and a
form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh
Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea
Stocco on the other side of the UW
campus, causing Stocco’s finger to
move on a keyboard.
While researchers at Duke University
have demonstrated brain-to-brain
communication between two rats, and
Harvard researchers have
demonstrated it between a human
and a rat, Rao and Stocco believe this
is the first demonstration of human-
to-human brain interfacing.
“The Internet was a way to connect
computers, and now it can be a way
to connect brains,” Stocco said. “We
want to take the knowledge of a brain
and transmit it directly from brain to
brain.”
The researchers captured the full
demonstration on video recorded in
both labs. The following version has
been edited for length. This video and
high-resolution photos also are
available on the research website.


On Aug. 12, Rao sat in his lab wearing
a cap with electrodes hooked up to an
electroencephalography machine,
which reads electrical activity in the
brain. Stocco was in his lab across
campus wearing a purple swim cap
marked with the stimulation site for
the transcranial magnetic stimulation
coil that was placed directly over his
left motor cortex, which controls hand
movement.
The team had a Skype connection set
up so the two labs could coordinate,
though neither Rao nor Stocco could
see the Skype screens.
Rao looked at a computer screen and
played a simple video game with his
mind. When he was supposed to fire
a cannon at a target, he imagined
moving his right hand (being careful
not to actually move his hand),
causing a cursor to hit the “fire”
button. Almost instantaneously,
Stocco, who wore noise-canceling
earbuds and wasn’t looking at a
computer screen, involuntarily moved
his right index finger to push the
space bar on the keyboard in front of
him, as if firing the cannon. Stocco
compared the feeling of his hand
moving involuntarily to that of a
nervous tic.
“It was both exciting and eerie to
watch an imagined action from my
brain get translated into actual action
by another brain,” Rao said. “This was
basically a one-way flow of
information from my brain to his. The
next step is having a more equitable
two-way conversation directly
between the two brains.”


At first blush, this breakthrough brings
to mind all kinds of science fiction
scenarios. Stocco jokingly referred to it
as a “Vulcan mind meld.” But Rao
cautioned this technology only reads
certain kinds of simple brain signals,
not a person’s thoughts. And it
doesn’t give anyone the ability to
control your actions against your will.


www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/

thumbs up, science. First steps to actualise telepathy. Proudly #HomoSapiens

Wow this great well all glory goes to the almighty God who gave insight into such reality.

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