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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They're Planning to Do Before They Do it

Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They're Planning to Do Before They Do it | Popular Science: "Neurologists working with monkeys at Washington University in St. Louis to decode brain activity have stumbled upon a rather surprising result. While working to demonstrate that multiple parameters can be seen in the firing rate of a single neuron (and that certain parameters are embedded in neurons only if they are needed to solve the immediate task), they also found that they could read their monkeys’ minds."

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