Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Rat Mind Control

Posted by timothy on from the you-will dept.

Patrick Key writes "Well, not exactly mind control but scientists have taken rat training to a new level. By inserting electrodes into the brain of a rat, they're able to effectively control a rat to move forward, left and right. They used the brain area that processes whisker info for left/right control and the pleasure center for moving forward. All sorts of interesting implications- no mention of when a human version would be available. The feat is mentioned in an IEEE's Spectrum article here"

3 of 180 comments (clear)

  1. repost by xercist · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can't the editors do a simple SEARCH?
    It's been posted here before. Took me 10 seconds to find it.

    --

    --
    grep "xercist" /dev/random ...you'll find me in there someday
    1. Re:repost by littleRedFriend · · Score: 2, Informative

      Maybe it is time to include some text clustering algorithms into the /. engine.

      The medline database, for example, contains millions of abstracts from scientific articles that have been clustered using this relatively simple method. It works very well. In this way editors would be able to find related posts. The 3 most similar posts could be interesting for us readers as well.

      --
      IANAL, but imagine a beowulf cluster of in Soviet Russia all your belong are base to us welcoming the new SCO overlords.
  2. Interesting... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're doing some interesting work with deep brain stimulation. It's already been used for a while to deal with Parkinsons patients.

    --

    --------
    Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...