Jennifer Crabill | 03-May-07 at 7:12 pm | Permalink
Wow, very weird. I don’t know how I feel about implanting electrodes into a monkey and making it play a game (how did they make the monkey stay put for an extended amount of time?), but the research is very interesting. After viewing the earlier video, though, about the blind woman who had electrodes implanted in her brain to attain vision, this reserach is a little less amazing. Nicolelis seems like quite the genius, regardless!
That was pretty amazing. I had no idea that they could actually read our minds let alone the fact that you can control certain technologies through the use of only your mind. It reminds me a little bit of Dr. Xavier from X-Men in that he can control anything with his mind. Maybe one day we will be at that level through the help of technology.
I don’t understand how he will take these research methods to explain how our brains function during emotional states. Considering the patterns displayed on the screen were the signals sent from the monkey’s brain to its arm, telling it when to move the joystick to hit a moving object on a screen. Unless one’s arm moves in one particular motion every time one gets sad about something, I don’t see how this study can open the flood gates to explain how our brain functions during emotional states by admitting dots on a monitor.
Jennifer Crabill | 03-May-07 at 7:12 pm | Permalink
Wow, very weird. I don’t know how I feel about implanting electrodes into a monkey and making it play a game (how did they make the monkey stay put for an extended amount of time?), but the research is very interesting. After viewing the earlier video, though, about the blind woman who had electrodes implanted in her brain to attain vision, this reserach is a little less amazing. Nicolelis seems like quite the genius, regardless!
Ryan Riordan | 04-May-07 at 3:14 pm | Permalink
That was pretty amazing. I had no idea that they could actually read our minds let alone the fact that you can control certain technologies through the use of only your mind. It reminds me a little bit of Dr. Xavier from X-Men in that he can control anything with his mind. Maybe one day we will be at that level through the help of technology.
John Creger | 05-May-07 at 1:22 pm | Permalink
I don’t understand how he will take these research methods to explain how our brains function during emotional states. Considering the patterns displayed on the screen were the signals sent from the monkey’s brain to its arm, telling it when to move the joystick to hit a moving object on a screen. Unless one’s arm moves in one particular motion every time one gets sad about something, I don’t see how this study can open the flood gates to explain how our brain functions during emotional states by admitting dots on a monitor.