Researchers claim the first ever “mind-meld.”
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Hacking Your Memory: Could Total Recall Really Happen?
“Total Recall” features technology that erases and implants memories. Is that just sci-fi nonsense, or will we one day be able to reprogram our memories as we see fit?
IBM Simulates Part of a Human Brain, All of a Cat’s
Cat lovers allergic to cats (but not robo-kitties), your day of bliss may be closer: IBM’s put together all the supercomputing parts and pieces to replicate the number of neural synapses inside a feline noggin. That, in short, means they’ve managed to simulate the essential pieces of Fluffy’s brain.
And not just a cat’s brain, but …
Scientists Can (Almost) Read Your Mind, Turn Thoughts into Movies
Mind, prepare to be blown—and scanned, by a device that can almost read thoughts, or at least digitize them into almost-identifiable images. No, it’s not some artsy video project, it’s for real: a system developed by University of California Berkeley scientists to capture visual activity in our brains and reassemble it as recognizable …
Is Google Really Wrecking Our Memory?
Could Google, the world’s largest search engine, be causing our memory banks to atrophy? Maybe, say four Columbia University researchers, who believe Google’s instant-retrieval search mechanics could be training our brains to jettison information we’re sure of quickly finding again with a few taps on a keyboard.
Times certainly have …
Want to Scan Your Brain? There’s an App for That!
The picture above caught my attention, and I assume it’s grabbing yours. No, it’s not from a new line of 2011 DEVO headwear, nor is it a robotic metal spider frozen in mid-reach around your head, poised–as soon as you don the headset–to devour your brain.
It’s actually a wireless head-gizmo dubbed the “Mynd,” designed by …
Study: More Friends on Facebook Equals A Bigger Amygdala In Your Brain
The number of Facebook friends you have is correlated to the size of your amygdala, the center used to process the memory of your emotional reactions in your brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The volume of your amydala has been connected to the size of the circle of those you come in contact with even …