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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: 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?