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I read carefully this paper. A question arises: how the authors can attest the animal they called "encoder" is "learning" a pattern generated by the "decoder"? This assertive is very vague, since…
I read carefully this paper. A question arises: how the authors can attest the animal they called "encoder" is "learning" a pattern generated by the "decoder"? This assertive is very vague, since…
Figure 7 shows the effect of microstimulation in the PSTH and the authors seem to suggest that the cortex of the receiver rat is re-representing the whisker of the sender...
I would sat that the paper was VERY effective for getting his lab a lot of publicity (and money?) . Was it just sensationalism or did it tell us something new about the brain?
I am not an expert in brain-to-brain-interfaces and I haven't read any old school psychology textbooks in a few years.I find this study very interesting, but I am somewhat "surprised" that there is…