Rats can move objects in virtual reality using only their thoughts

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By speechmaking a rat's intentions from its encephalon patterns, an AI tin assistance the rodent determination objects successful a virtual environment

By Carissa Wong

BFA2A1 Fancy Rat, Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus domesticus, Rattus norvegicus domestica), six weeks aged  carnal  held successful  1  hand

In VR, rats tin exert power with their minds

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Rats tin determination objects successful virtual world conscionable by reasoning of wherever they privation them to go, acknowledgment to an artificial quality that reads their intentions successful the brain.

A intelligence representation of our section surroundings is stored successful a encephalon portion called the hippocampus, which contains neurons called “place cells”. These cells occurrence antithetic patterns of electrical impulses depending connected wherever you are.

However, it has been unclear whether this enactment successful the hippocampus tin beryllium consciously controlled by imagining …

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