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Human to human brain interface

"Indian scientist performs world’s first human-to-human brain interface"

 

 

An Indian scientist at the University of Washington has performed the world's first ever non-invasive human-to-human brain interface, in which one researcher was able to send a brain signal via the internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.

 

 

This comes after researchers at Duke University in the US demonstrated brain-to-brain communication between two rats and Harvard scientists have demonstrated it between a human and a rat.

 

 

The university announced that researcher Rajesh Rao used Electroencephalography or EEG — routinely used to record brain activity non-invasively from the scalp — to play a computer game with his mind.

 

 

Across campus, researcher Andrea Stocco wore a magnetic stimulation coil. Stocco's right index finger moved involuntarily to hit the "fire" button as part of the first human brain-to-brain interface demonstration — the thought that was transmitted by Rao.

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Uploaded on August 29, 2013
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