{"id":17761,"date":"2015-09-24T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hooked-up-human-brains-play-telepathic-20-questions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:36:42","slug":"hooked-up-human-brains-play-telepathic-20-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hooked-up-human-brains-play-telepathic-20-questions","title":{"rendered":"Hooked-up human brains play telepathic \u201820 Questions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMY1acFZHxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the experiment, pairs of people played the well-known question-and-answer game \u201c20 Questions\u201d, but were located in two rooms a mile apart and hooked up to a brain-reading system. The person answering \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d was connected to an ECG machine, which records electrical brain activity. The person guessing had a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil behind their head \u2014 a non-invasive tool that stimulates small areas of the brain\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two human brains have successfully played \u201c20 Questions\u201d, showing for the first time that it is possible for two brains to share thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment, I think, that\u2019s been done to date in humans,\u201d said Andrea Stocco, lead author of the study, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilabs.uw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences<\/a> at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>For the experiment, pairs of people played the well-known question-and-answer game \u201c20 Questions\u201d, but were located in two rooms a mile apart and hooked up to a brain-reading system. The person answering \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d was connected to an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroencephalography\" target=\"_blank\">ECG machine<\/a>, which records electrical brain activity. The person guessing had a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation\" target=\"_blank\">transcranial magnetic stimulation<\/a> coil behind their head \u2014 a non-invasive tool that stimulates small areas of the brain and has been used to treat depression and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2013-04\/17\/quit-smoking\">addiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2015-09\/24\/linked-human-brains-play-20-questions\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the experiment, pairs of people played the well-known question-and-answer game \u201c20 Questions\u201d, but were located in two rooms a mile apart and hooked up to a brain-reading system. The person answering \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d was connected to an ECG machine, which records electrical brain activity. The person guessing had a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64092,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions\/64092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}