Although neuroscientists have a general idea of what parts of the brain do what, catching them in the act is a difficult proposition. But UC Berkeley researchers have managed to do it, visualizing based on direct measurement the path of a single thought (or at least thread) through the brain.
Normal scalp-based electroencephalography (EEG) is easy to do, but it really can only get a very blurry picture of brain activity near the surface, because it has to detect all that through your hair, skin, skull, etc.
What if you could take all that stuff out of the way and put the electrodes right on the brain? That'd be great, except who would volunteer for such an invasive procedure? Turns out, a handful of folks who were already getting open-brain surgery did.
[...] We are trying to look at that little window of time between when things happen in the environment and us behaving in response to it," explained lead author Avgusta Shestyuk in the Berkeley news release. "This is the first step in looking at how people think and how people come up with different decisions; how people basically behave."
Source: TechCrunch
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @04:33AM
Three men dressed in black walk into a hospital and head towards the front desk. Even a cursory glance would tell one that these men are dangerous. One of the men pulls a large amount of money out of his pocket and hands it to the nurse at the front desk. The man holding the money says, while wearing an evil grin, "You know..." A disgusting smile appears on the nurse's face, and she then accepts the money. All three men travel to a particular room in the hospital.
Soon after, a woman walks up to the front desk to see one of her family members. The woman tells the lady at the front desk who she wishes to visit, but the receptionist simply gasps. "That room was Marked By 'P'! You can't go in there now!"
Elsewhere, the three men were now naked in a certain room. That room had a male patient who was unconscious due to drugs the doctors gave him at the behest of the men. The men were all raping the patient in various different ways. One man was was raping the patient's ass. Another man had slit open the man's belly and was jabbing his dick inside it. The last man was shoving his genitals in the patient's face repeatedly. All three of them would shout "Utilize like this!" at random intervals.
In the very same room, there were men who looked to be employees from a cleaning company. They were testing upright vacuums to see which one was most effective at removing dirt and grime from a rug placed in the room. The cleaning company employees would discuss the technical details of the vacuums they were testing amongst themselves, all the while ignoring the men raping the patient as if they simply did not exist.
Finally, the three men were done raping the patient. "Garbage has met its use..." one of them said. Before they departed, they shoved medical knives and needles into the patient's asshole.
After the men left, the sign on the outside of the door to the room they were in instantly changed from a number to the word "USED". The woman who wanted to visit a family member walked up to the room, read the sign, and looked absolutely disgusted. She then walked away, as if there was nothing of value in that room any longer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @11:13AM (1 child)
Mods, do your stuff please. I'm sure you don't want SN used as a toilet, and as for the rest of us we'd go to 4chan if we wanted to read trash like that comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @08:02PM
Funny you mention 4chan. I usually to go /wg/, and I don't know if it's heavily moderated or what but that board has always been very good quality. But yesterday I decided on a whim to go to /b/. Remember when /b/ used to be good? (heh) I clicked through a few pages, and it was nothing but porn. Nothing crazy. Nothing too weird. No memes. It was oddly tame. Did something happen to /b/? Is there anything we can do to fix it so that the trolls have somewhere to go again?