Feeding monkeys, watching movies with cats, playing video games – sounds like a nice day off, right? If you’re a neuroscientist, though, it sounds a lot like the last half-century of research into connecting human brains to computers. Elon Musk’s Neuralink, impressive as it is, has only been in the game since 2016, and it’s just part of an ever-building wave of neuroscientific accomplishments. Those monkeys? They’re feeding themselves with robot arms connected to their brains. The cats are watching videos, and we’re translating the resulting brain activity back into images. And the video games? You can play them with… Read more