A Device to Increase Human Memory Has Been Implanted, and It Works

[rcjordan]

The improvement they achieved in subjects' scores was startling: Short-term memory improved by 15% and working memory by roughly 25%.

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/a-device-to-increase-human-memory-has-been-implanted-and-it-works

[ergophobe]

I saw an analysis of this device somewhere else, but I can't remember where.

[littleman]

Damn, I had a comment on your memory loss Ergo, but I forgot what it was.

[littleman]

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to be an early adopter of any technology that messes with brain function, but this seems to have a lot of potential.

Song calls the device a "memory prosthesis." The Parylene C — a biocompatible USP class VI polymer — neural probe sports an electrode array for detecting and ultimately reproducing electrical firing patterns in the hippocampus.

Now imagine that hooked up to a storage device.

[gm66]

I saw an analysis of this device somewhere else, but I can't remember where.

You stole my reply!