NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » Washington University http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Thu, 23 May 2013 21:16:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Best Tech Briefs of the Week: Nerds Read Monkey’s Mind, See Bananas http://nypress.com/bytes1ghz-the-best-tech-briefs-of-the-week-nerds-read-monkeys-mind-see-bananas/ http://nypress.com/bytes1ghz-the-best-tech-briefs-of-the-week-nerds-read-monkeys-mind-see-bananas/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:53:13 +0000 @BYTES1GHz http://nypress.com/?p=53818  

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@BYTES1GHz is a single serving of undigested tech for the unfocused and/or unconcerned. Don’t be disappoint. Like. Enjoy.

#WhutItDo: JK. No bananas. But the wizards over at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, did find
something super unexpected while recording the neural activity of a pair of monkeys during some wacky
experiment. Apparently they could see what the little buddies were planning to do before they even did it!

#FutureOfStuff: Now, I’m no Brain Wizard, but if you can see something coming, chances are you can
catch it. By reproducing the neural ‘planning’ stage for an action, could you make a subject think it meant to
do something? Whoa.

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