Lab Rats Given Terminator-Like Infrared Vision

Mammals don't have the ability to detect infrared light, but researches at the Duke university denied to accept that. They have developed a neuroprosthesis by which rats get the ability to see in the infrared electromagnetic spectrum, to which they are normally blind.

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The researchers trained a couple of lab rats inside a test chamber, giving them reward points whenever LEDs lit up. Later they implanted an array of tiny stimulating electrodes, which were wired to an infrared sensor, surgically on the rats' foreheads. After the surgery, the researches tested it out in the test chamber where they replaced the LED lights with infrared light sources. Over a course of month, the rats responded the same way they did to the LED lights, only this time it were infrared lights.

Infrared radiation was chosen for the experiment because it does not interfere with the electrophysiological recordings of the body. This experiment is a milestone in Brain Machine Interfaces, which later could be the solution to cure paralysis and blindness.

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