Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Washington successfully replicated a directed brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a study following the research team’s initial demonstration a year ago. In the new study, involving six people, researchers were able to transmit the signal from one person’s brain over the Internet and use them to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal. “The new study brings our brain-to-brain interfacing paradigm from an initial demonstration to something that is closer to a deliverable technology,” said a co-author of the study. “Now we have replicated our methods and know that they can work reliably with walk-in participants.” The study involved three pairs of participants, each pair including a sender and a receiver with different roles and constraints. They sat in separate buildings on campus about a half mile apart and were unable to interact with each other in any way — except for the link between their brains. To read more about this study, click here.