Every few weeks they would do this training with him, pavlovian style, you know, conditioning him to be able to say yes or no. And when he got pretty good at it, essentially, when he got 80 % of these correct, he would move on to the next phase. This is the moresoof weird and spooky section, heres when he applies yes and no to a schemer, like he had learnd before with his family. He then thereby formulates actual words, sentences and entire expression. What's happening here is hugely hisstoric yes. I mean, it is kind of likely to break through study in many ways. Its the first time a
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But as we learned in an episode earlier this year, 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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