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Neuralink Has Put its First Chip in a Human Brain. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company’s PRIME study, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.” In the past few ...

Troy Oakes

Neuralink chip.

What Is Being in the Flow?

This is an important question, as being in the flow has the potential to impact many aspects of your life. We all know that when we are “in the zone,” everything just seems to flow. Everything clicks and falls into place. We perform effortlessly and our productivity is through the roof. But what is brain ...

Armin Auctor

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How Can You Stop the Sensation of Being Tickled?

Have you ever wondered why you can’t tickle yourself? Do you hate being tickled? Well, an expert in molecular biology and genetics has the answers. There are thousands of nerve endings under your skin, and when a person’s touch stimulates these, the nerves send a message to your brain. The effect of a light tickling touch is the ...

Troy Oakes

A happy mother tickling her daughter.

Your Brain Activity Depends on Who You’re Talking To

Your brain responds differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows. While neuroscientists have used brain imaging scans to track in great detail the neural responses of individuals to a host of factors such as stress, ...

Troy Oakes

A workplace meeting.

The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and the Human Brain

While scientists across the world are conducting research on developing a truly human-like artificial intelligence (AI), they still don’t have a clear understanding of how intelligence actually works. This mystery has been dragging down AI research for years. However, the machine intelligence company Numenta has come up with The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, which offers ...

Armin Auctor

Brain neurons.