Memory Research Getting Ever More Scary

By Daniel Miessler on September 22nd, 2008: Tagged as Science

Scientists are now isolating precisely where memories are located within the brain, and they can see them being accessed before the human knows they are. Cool stuff. Scary stuff.

The most telling quote:

Ultimately, it was possible for the researchers to know which clip a patient was recalling before the patient announced it.

Science-fiction.

Links

[ Memory Isolation | sciencedaily.com ]

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Comments

  • Science Friday did a piece a few months back about some scientists that where able to predict which of two buttons a person was going to hit before the people themselves knew which one they where going to hit. The accuracy was no 100%, but it was statistically significant.

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