Scientists Connected The Brains Of 3 People, Allowing Them To Send One Another "Thoughts"

Scientists say they have created a form of brain - to - psyche interface , which allowed three people to act as a game of Tetris together .

write their enquiry in the journalarXiv , researchers led by Linxing Jiang from the University of Washington in Seattle said one person was able to " send thoughts ” to two other people .

In the study , they tasked three participants with playing a Tetris - style biz . Their brain activeness was recorded using an encephalogram   ( EEG ) , while transcranial magnetic stimulation ( TMS ) was used to send selective information from the brain . The web they used to do this is called BrainNet .

To broadcast signals , the connection first measure mastermind sign via the EEG . Then , using the TMS , its potential to touch off specific Einstein activity , like seeing a flash of luminance .

“ Together , these devices make it possible to send and receive sign directly to and from the brain , ” notesMIT Tech Review . “ But nobody has created a meshwork that allows group communication .   Until now . ”

The game , like Tetris , involved rotating a block on a screen so that it fits into a quad . It ’s a bit simplified though , as the shape only call for to be spread out 180 level – or not – in decree to accommodate .

Two of the masses in the study were the “ senders . ” They stared at flashing lights on either side of a screen to “ revolve ” and “ do n’t revolve ” , flashing at different frequencies , to bring on a specific brain sign . Then the " receiver " , who could not see the screen , received their signals via the TMS .

And they also introduce a bit of fault , having one of the senders send the haywire signal , to see how successful the receiver could be . Overall , with five groups of three people , they had a fairly decent success rate of81.25 per centum .

“ This is n’t telepathy by any stretch . It requires extraneous treatment , and can only transmit one ‘ bit ’ of data point at a time , ” saidEngadget . “ The technology could descale up to a much larger bit of people , though , and it paint a picture that you could finally transfer well more complex thoughts across grouping . ”

So we ’re not quite going to be institutionalize each other our thoughts any clip presently . But it ’s a pretty interesting flavour at how the mental capacity influence , and a play look at what sort of communication may one mean solar day be possible .