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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
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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