Almost human?

• Autores: Aviva Rutkin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3080, 2016, págs. 16-17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Monkeys controlling a robotic arm with their thoughts. Chicks born with a bit of quail brain spliced in. Rats with their brains synced to create a mind-meld computer. For two days in June, some of neuroscience's most extraordinary feats were debated over coffee and vegetarian food at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science in Philadelphia. Here,, Turkin examines when an animal is a person, a question that advances in neuroscience.