It sounds like something out of science fiction: One person thinks about pressing the spacebar on a keyboard to fire a cannon in a video game, and another person across campus is compelled to press the spacebar for real, even though he doesn’t see the game on-screen. It’s essentially that very scenario, however, that scientists at the University of Washington recently achieved using an electroencephalography machine and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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My Wish Is Your Command: Scientists Make Imperius Curse Real
Posted by: Enid Burns August 28, 2013 05:18 PMIt sounds like something out of science fiction: One person thinks about pressing the spacebar on a keyboard to fire a cannon in a video game, and another person across campus is compelled to press the spacebar for real, even though he doesn’t see the game on-screen. It’s essentially that very scenario, however, that scientists at the University of Washington recently achieved using an electroencephalography machine and transcranial magnetic stimulation.