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Merged Flowers for Algernon? / memory prosthesis?

Sorry--I missed the existing thread on this topic. See the link I provided (now post #3).

Thank you for that.

I see that you (and they) think the next step is into primates, but this seems such a good system for testing, perhaps looking at varying the signals to attempt to elucidate any essential parts would be more fruitful.
 
Just coincidentally, I was getting my car inspected yesterday and in the waiting area was a pile of magazines, including a Popular Science from 2007. The cover article was on the preliminary research by this fellow, with nice illustrations of the hippocampus and various other brain structures and offering speculation as to how it would work.
 
I see that you (and they) think the next step is into primates, but this seems such a good system for testing, perhaps looking at varying the signals to attempt to elucidate any essential parts would be more fruitful.

I don't think their chip design is based on the production of any particular type of resultant signal. It's meant to emulate actual neurons and their function. So I think they're not directly manipulating the resulting signal that goes to the implanted electrodes.

But I think you're right that an analysis of those patterns might be insightful too. At least to eliminate the possibility of a confounding effect that I mentioned before. (It might be that ANY electrical stimulation to this part of the hippocampus would have this effect.)
 

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