Author: harald

by Steven Rose reported in the Observer on February 05 2006 on p31 of the Comment section Brain scientists are on a roll. Concern about rising levels of mental distress have resulted in unprecedented levels of funding in the US and Europe. And a range of new technologies, from genetics to brain imaging, are offering extraordinary insights into Read More

Modified Behavior in Animals Subject of Brain StudyBy John A. OsmundsenReported in New York Times on 17 May, 1965 Afternoon sunlight poured over the high wooden barriers into the ring as the brave bull bore down on the unarmed “matador” — a scientist who had never faced a fighting bull. But the charging animal’s horns never reached Read More

by Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD, Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland, Published in SPEKULA, 1999 Comment: This article was originally published in the 36th-year edition of the Finnish-language journal SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999).  SPEKULA (circulation 6500) is a publication of Northern Finland medical students and doctors of Oulu University OLK (Oulun Laaketieteellinen Kilta).  It is mailed to Read More

By Luke Dormehl Posted  on https://www.digitaltrends.com on 02.26.18 Google’s artificial intelligence technology may sometimes seem like it’s reading our mind, but neuroscientists at Canada’s University of Toronto Scarborough are literally using A.I. for that very purpose — by reconstructing images based on brain perception using data gathered by electroencephalography (EEG). In a test, subjects were hooked up to Read More

By Mark Molloy Published in Telegraph on 1 March, 2016 Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe. Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in Read More

By Danyal Hussain Published in Daily Mail on 31 March, 2018 Scientists have developed an astonishing mind-reading machine which can translate what you are thinking and instantly display it as text. They claim that it has an accuracy rate of 90 per cent or more and say that it works by interpreting consonants and vowels in Read More

By Jamie Seidel Posted on https://www.news.com.au On May 2, 2018 FOR factory workers in China, there’s no such thing as privacy, as employers have begun forcing staff members to wear devices that monitor their mental states. FACTORY workers. Military personnel. Train drivers. If you’re employed in China, your thoughts are not your own. Headwear with built in sensors Read More

New effort aims for fully implantable devices able to connect with up to one million neurons Posted on DARPA official website https://www.darpa.mil on 1/19/2016 The Neural Engineering System Design program aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world A new DARPA Read More

Posted on https://www.osa.org on the 23 January 2019 Photoacoustic communication approach could send warning messages through the air without requiring a receiving device. WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could Read More