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Scientist Control The Dreams Of Rats ,Humans Could Be Next
Researchers successfully manipulate rat DREAMS… and human dreams could be next
When Lab Rats Dream Researchers have figured out how to manipulate the dreams of sleeping rats using audio cues that conjure a specific memory from the previous day IMAGE BY Janet Stephens via vious day.
IMAGE BY Janet Stephens via Wikimedia
PUBLISHED:22:47 EST, 5 September 2012| UPDATED:00:44 EST, 6 September 2012
Researchers have successfully manipulated rat dreams, and soon they could be manipulating what runs through humans’ minds at night.
In an extremely creepy breakthrough, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to influence what the animals were dreaming about by replaying an audio cure associated with the previous day’s events.
Unsurprisingly, that involved running through a maze.
Rat dreams: Researchers have successfully manipulated rat dreams, in a new study (stock photo)
Neuroscientist Matt Wilson, from the University’s Picower Institute for learning and memory, told io9.com that his team exploited the way the brain’s hippocampus encodes self-experienced events into memory
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