{"id":369,"date":"2013-02-28T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/?p=369"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:00:33","slug":"first-brain-to-brain-interface-allows-transmission-of-tactile-and-motor-information-between-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"FIRST BRAIN-TO-BRAIN INTERFACE ALLOWS TRANSMISSION OF TACTILE AND MOTOR INFORMATION BETWEEN RATS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) enabled a real-time transfer of behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor information between the brains of two rats. In this BTBI, an \u2018\u2018encoder\u2019\u2019 rat performed sensorimotor tasks that required it to select from two choices of tactile or visual stimuli. While the encoder rat performed the task, samples of its cortical activity were transmitted to matching cortical areas of a \u2018\u2018decoder\u2019\u2019 rat using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). The decoder rat learned to make similar behavioral selections, guided solely by the information provided by the encoder rat\u2019s brain. These results demonstrated that a complex system was formed by coupling the animals\u2019 brains, suggesting that BTBIs can enable dyads or networks of animal\u2019s brains to exchange, process, and store information and, hence, serve as the basis for studies of novel types of social interaction and for biological computing devices. Read the full article (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

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