Brain-to-Brain Interface Demonstration

University of Washington researchers demonstrate how they can transmit the signals from one person's brain over the Internet and use these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal. The research is a collaboration between the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Psychology. The researchers first introduced the technology in 2013. With new funding, they hope to expand the types of information that can be transferred from brain to brain.

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00:00:00 sometimes words just complicate things what if our brains could communicate directly with each other bypassing the need for language at the University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first non-invasive human human brain interface we found that the technology exists right now to do a simple demonstration that you

00:00:22 can record from one brain and then stimulate another brain I've been working for the past two years own modeling how the brain works and in particular the brain represents knowledge and we'll be using TMS and functional magnetic imaging to understand and reverse engineering our information is representing the brain during the experiment I'm wearing a cap

00:00:41 for a procedure called electro encephalogram the short form for that is EEG on our side we first map the parts of the brain Patrol's my right hand and this part is actually on my left part of the head then we use this machine to generate electrical field the researchers work on opposite sides of the campus and through the internet now the center sits in front of a computer

00:01:05 game in which he has to defend a city by firing a cannon stock oh the receiver with no ability to see the game in his hand position two over a touchpad that will fire the cannon waits for a command directly from rouse brain yes success with new funding the research team will expand the types of information that can be transferred from brain to brain we believe that it will

00:01:38 be worth exploring the idea that you can help the recovery process by literally transmitting the motor programs of a healthy brain to the brain that has been damaged