UW Experiment Connects Human Thoughts Over the Internet

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UW Experiment Connects Human Thoughts Over the Internet

 

Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) recently published a study showing the viability of “brain-to-brain” interfacing through the use of brainwaves monitored by an EEG device.

Using a modified version of “20 Questions” the team had volunteers answered “yes” or “no” using a flashing light. The paired participants were in separate rooms during the question answering.

One of the volunteers was hooked up to an EEG which transmitted the original participant’s thoughts using a magnetic coil placed behind the receiving participant’s head.

In the end, out of 20 games played by groups of 2, 10 volunteers could correctly guess the object in 72% of the games.

Andrea Stocco, assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, explained that “evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on. What we are doing is kind of reversing the process a step at a time by opening up this box and taking signals from the brain and with minimal translation, putting them back in another person’s brain.”