Researchers Develop Network for Direct Brain to Brain Communication

Science is taking another leap forward – a team of scientists has developed a way for three people to share their thoughts in a “brain-to-brain network”.

In an intriguing experiment, researchers set up a three-person version of Tetris – a popular block-matching puzzle game – where two people could send instructions to a third receiver, playing the game using nothing but electrical signals from their brains.

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This kind of technology has already been used to pick up brain signals, but this is the first time it’s been done in a measurable format. The tools used for this experiment include electroencephalograms or EEGs that are able to read brain signals and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

This set up was already used earlier to link up to two people using a brain interface in a 20 questions-type game.

Three-Man Brain Game

Andrea Stocco of the University of Washington in Seattle and her colleagues conducted this experiment. They call it BrainNet, a brain-to-brain network that allows several people to communicate with each other directly.

Large Scale Applications

A cloud-based brain-to-brain interface server could direct information transmission between any set of devices on the brain-to-brain interface network and make it globally operable through the Internet, thereby allowing cloud-based interactions between brains on a global scale,