SCIENTISTS IMPLANT FALSE MEMORIES IN MICE

The perfect job for twisted sadists - Be an experimental scientist torturing defenceless animals.

The ultimate goal in the increasing interest in many mind experiments lately is to be able to fully understand and control the human mind.  It is chilling.

This is how they implanted false memories in mice:

 

MIT scientists conditioned mice to fear an environment, Room One, by delivering simultaneous shocks to the mice’s feet and flashes of blue light inside their skulls via fiber optic cable as a way of triggering neurons to create a memory of the pain.

 

The mice were next introduced to a different environment, Room Two, and the team found that when the blue light was used again, the mice reacted with fear, associating it with a pain that was not imminent.

 

All of the above, however, was published over a year ago by the team at MIT in the journal Nature, and is only a prelude to their more recent experiment.

 

More recently, the scientists introduced mice to a room, then placed them in a second environment, and then triggered the blue light and the shock.

 

Upon placing the mice back into the original chamber, which the mice should have associated with safety after having not been shocked there originally, the mice still reacted with fear when the blue light was triggered.

 

In essence, the experiments caused the mice to remember pain in an environment they had been trained to trust.

The science world reacted to the news with enthusiasm.

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus told Fox News that the results were “very exciting.”

Read more -

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mit-scientists-successfully-implant-false-memories-in-mice/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/science/false-memory-planted-in-a-mouse-brain-study-shows.html?ref=science

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2377934/Can-trick-people-feeling-scared-Scientists-implant-FALSE-memories-brains-mice.html


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