Mind News | Mind News – Mind Information

neuroscience

06/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook

MIT researchers develop a machine that manipulates hypnagogia, the state between wakefulness and sleep

As we move from sharp awareness to restful sleep, we undergo hypnagogia, a state where we experience small but surreal dreams that escape our recollection when we wake up. In a Motherboard article, an MIT team reported how they developed a device that can access this dreamland. MIT Media Lab researcher Adam Horowitz led the efforts to create Dormio, […]

06/01/2018 / By David Williams

The world might be getting brain implants soon – can you handle it?

Based on the most recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, it’s becoming quite clear that the era of the brain-controlled implant (BCI) is upon us. BCIs are said to be next-level devices that are going to replace current standard smartphones and other mobile computers, granting humans the ability to perform many smartphone tasks […]

05/22/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The perception conundrum: “Gorilla effect” could be blinding us from actually detecting aliens

We might be looking for alien life in the wrong direction. A Spanish study suggests that alien hunters are blinded by the “gorilla effect,” where someone tunnel-visions on something so hard that he fails to notice something strange. Cosmologists focused on the human definition of life while ignoring unorthodox ideas such as aliens made of dark matter or […]

05/14/2018 / By David Williams

How you respond to risks may be how your brain is wired; people who play it safe have more neurons but less coordinated pathways

Personality may have very little to do with people’s proclivity for risk, a new study reveals. Based on the results of the new study, the way people tend to respond to risky odds and risky situations entirely depends on how their brain is wired, as well as how different they are in this regard to […]

04/26/2018 / By David Williams

That’s TOO far to the Left: MIT backs away from startup that wants to upload your brain to the cloud after killing you first

There was an ambitious new startup, called Nectome, that promised to help people evade death through brain uploading at some point in the future. It received backing from the Silicon Valley startup incubator YCombinator as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and it seemed to have a solid plan all around. The only […]

1 of 1