Memories Implanted Into Sleeping Mice Successfully, French National Center For Scientific Research Reveals

A team of French neuroscientists has effectively hacked the brains of sleeping mice, implanting false memories using electrodes to directly stimulate and record nerve cell activities, according to new research published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Their technique created artificial associative memories that remained throughout the creatures’ sleep, and altered their behavior after they woke up, according to The Guardian. While this is far from the only time that scientists have altered brain cells in the laboratory, it demonstrates for the first time that fake memories can be implanted into the brains of sleeping animals.

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