The team managed to send messages from India to France - a distance of 5,000 miles - without performing invasive surgery on the test subjects.
There were four participants in the study,
aged between 28 and 50.
One was assigned to a brain-computer interface
to transmit the thought, while the three others were assigned to receive the
thought.
The first participant, located in India, was
shown words translated into binary, and had to envision actions for each piece
of information.
For example, they could move their hands for a
1 or their legs for a 0.
A technique known as electroencephalogry -
which monitors brain signals from the outside - was used to record the thoughts
as outgoing messages and send them via the internet.
At the other end, electromagnetic induction
was used to stimulate the brain's visual cortex from the outside and pass on
the signal successfully to the three
other participants in France.
The report's co-author, Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
said: "We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two
people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain
activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by
leveraging existing communication pathways.
"One such pathway is, of course, the
internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would
bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct
brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other
in India and France?"
The research team was made up of researchers
from Harvard University, as well experts from France and Spain.
Sky news
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