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BRAIN TO BRAIN 5. MINDMELD


Scientists have announced the fi rst ever brain-to-brain communication. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of


neurology at Harvard Medical School, a team from Starlab Barcelona, Spain, led by Giulio Ruffi ni and Carles Grau, and Axilum Robotics CEO Michel Berg and his team in Strasbourg, France, collaborated to transmit words in a “computer- mediated, brain-to-brain transmission” between people in India and France. They used two technologies to


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electroencephalography (EEG) and robot- assisted, image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Four people took part – one sent


words via a brain-computer interface and the other three received and had to understand them. Using EEG, the team translated the words hola and ciao into binary code and emailed the results from India to France. Once there, a computer-brain interface transmitted the words to the receivers through non-invasive brain stimulation.


Read Attractions Management online attractionsmanagement.com/digital The subjects experienced the words as


fl ashes of light in their peripheral vision in a numerical sequence. They decoded and accurately reported the greetings. It’s the fi rst time people have


communicated across thousands of miles without speech or writing. The researchers say it’s the fi rst step in


“bypassing traditional language-based or motor-based communication.” Once refi ned, this could fi nd applications in attractions. It may even eventually enable communication between species.


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