rhea137: Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines. Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product. “The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs. (via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

rhea137:

Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines.

Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product.

“The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs.

(via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

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How the Brain Stops Time

tamburina:

One of the strangest side-effects of intense fear is time dilation, the apparent slowing-down of time. It’s a common trope in movies and TV shows, like the memorable scene from The Matrix in which time slows down so dramatically that bullets fired at the hero seem to move at a walking pace. In real life, our perceptions aren’t keyed up quite that dramatically, but survivors of life-and-death situations often report that things seem to take longer to happen, objects fall more slowly, and they’re capable of complex thoughts in what would normally be the blink of an eye.

Now a research team from Israel reports that not only does time slow down, but that it slows down more for some than for others. Anxious people, they found, experience greater time dilation in response to the same threat stimuli.

An intriguing result, and one that raises a more fundamental question: how, exactly, does the brain carry out this remarkable feat?

(via elliejune)

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rhea137: Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines. Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product. “The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs. (via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

rhea137:

Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines.

Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product.

“The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs.

(via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

How the Brain Stops Time

tamburina:

One of the strangest side-effects of intense fear is time dilation, the apparent slowing-down of time. It’s a common trope in movies and TV shows, like the memorable scene from The Matrix in which time slows down so dramatically that bullets fired at the hero seem to move at a walking pace. In real life, our perceptions aren’t keyed up quite that dramatically, but survivors of life-and-death situations often report that things seem to take longer to happen, objects fall more slowly, and they’re capable of complex thoughts in what would normally be the blink of an eye.

Now a research team from Israel reports that not only does time slow down, but that it slows down more for some than for others. Anxious people, they found, experience greater time dilation in response to the same threat stimuli.

An intriguing result, and one that raises a more fundamental question: how, exactly, does the brain carry out this remarkable feat?

(via elliejune)
How the Brain Stops Time

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