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| The Experimented Rat |
A rat has been given a artificial brain part - the cerebellum by the researchers of the Tel Aviv University to regain lost functions and powers ushering the era of true Brian-to-Computer communications for humans.
Matti Mintz, a professor on psychobiology at that University and his colleagues have made a artificial cerebellum controlled by a computer and connected it to an anesthetized rat who had a disabled cerebellum.
Attaching it to the rat they tried to make the rat to blink at the hearing of a tone. To make the rat to blink they first fired a puff of air when the tone was sounded and then just sounded the stone. To their surprise this worked. The rat blinked when he heard the sound and when the artificial cerebellum was removed he could not reply to the tone.
That means that the scientists were successful in using the artificial cerebellum to transfer signals from one part of the brain to another. This achievement is far more convincing rather than previous brain-to-computer interfaces such as Prosthetic limbs or computer controls which send information in only one way.
To know what kind of signals to send they observed a original cerebellum of a rat for signals and reactions and duplicated those signals to the artificial one which they fixed in the rat.
(Via: New Scientist)
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| The Cerebellum as in Humans |
Attaching it to the rat they tried to make the rat to blink at the hearing of a tone. To make the rat to blink they first fired a puff of air when the tone was sounded and then just sounded the stone. To their surprise this worked. The rat blinked when he heard the sound and when the artificial cerebellum was removed he could not reply to the tone.
That means that the scientists were successful in using the artificial cerebellum to transfer signals from one part of the brain to another. This achievement is far more convincing rather than previous brain-to-computer interfaces such as Prosthetic limbs or computer controls which send information in only one way.
To know what kind of signals to send they observed a original cerebellum of a rat for signals and reactions and duplicated those signals to the artificial one which they fixed in the rat.
(Via: New Scientist)
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