Wednesday, April 04, 2007

The Memory Hacker - Popular Science
...“Watch this,” says Srinivasan, a design engineer working with USC’s Center for Neural Engineering...Srinivasan explains that the chip is sending electric pulses through the needle into the brain slice...this iron-gray wafer about a millimeter square is talking to living brain cells as though it were an actual body part.

Ted Berger, Srinivasan’s boss and the mastermind behind the tangle of coils and electrodes, has arranged this demonstration to provide a small but profound glimpse into the future of brain science...

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