Ok, we still have a long way to go before we can control other people. Aside from the fact that we don't have much control over the rat, people don't even have tails!
| Yoo, S-s, Kim, H, Filandrianos, E, Taghados, SJ, and Park, S. PLOSone, 2013 |
A group in Harvard has made a way for humans to control rat tail movements with their minds. And all of this is noninvasive for both of the participants (the human and the rat). Well, the rat was anesthetized, so not completely noninvasive.
Further, being anesthetized means that the rat couldn't reject the movement, so this doesn't allow the "controller" to force motion of an otherwise functional rat. And, the movement doesn't actually correlate to a movement that humans perform, so we can't get too excited about controlled, focused, functional motion just yet but this is a huge step toward brain-to-brain interfaces.
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