How Do These Experiments Progress?

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When he got pretty good at it, essentially, when he got 80 % of these correct, he would move on to the next phase. So this is the more a sort of weird and spooky section. Heres when he applies yes and no to a scheme like he had learnt before with his family. And then thereby formulating actual words, sentences and an entire expression - tetel, satpest, mixafsope, mitlimalonly closely, miso, alanbanlage, ticanunesfun, sinrabeese.

A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But the scientists behind it have a checkered past.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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