A team of scientists from the University of California has received a grant of $ 4 million from the U.S. Army neuroscientists to study the fundamentals of artificial telepathy.
If the research succeeds significant progress, would develop a communication system that would benefit the soldiers on the battlefield, but also people suffering from paralysis resulting from stroke, and certain other illnesses or injuries, according to Michael D'Zmura, professor at Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California at Irvine.
The brain-computer interface would use a technology similar to the non-invasive electroencephalography to get two people to exchange their thoughts.
For example, a soldier "think" a message to be conveyed and a computerized system for recognition of signals associated with neurological spoke decrypt the signals of the electroencephalogram.
When thoughts are decoded, they would be transmitted using a system that would point in the direction of the target.
This system would require each user to follow a training, both to learn how to send messages and how to receive them.
Initially, the communication would be based on a limited set of words or phrases recognized by the system at the thought of the subjects, to gradually move to cover more complex areas of language and speech as technology develops.
D'Zmura work with Ramesh Srinivasan, Gregory Hickok and Kourosh Saberi, science teachers of cognition. In the team also will work researchers Richard Stern and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula of the Carnegie Mellon University, and David Poeppel of the University of Maryland.
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