Almost 'Avatar': Brain Implant Lets One Monkey Control Another

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

In work inspired partly by the movie "Avatar," one monkey controlled the body of another monkey using thought alone, via a connection from the brain of the puppet-master monkey to the spine of the other through a prosthesis, researchers say.

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