Re: TECH: Cat eye video camera???

From: xgl (xli03@emory.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 11:12:11 MST


On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Zero Powers wrote:

> I heard a short piece on the radio today about some researchers (in the
> U.K.?) who had successfully attached wires to a cat's brain and by recording
> the signals in its brain had recreated discernable images of what the cat
> sees on video. I can't find anything about it on the net. Anybody here
> know anything about this?
>

        ah ... that was like, a loong time ago. the abcnews link
evaporated, so here is one from discovery channel canada:

http://exn.ca/stories/1999/11/10/56.asp

and here's the webpage of the researcher, bragging:

http://vision.berkeley.edu/VSP/YD/YD-CS.html

it has a video of the images recovered.

-x



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