Mice run through Quake, Princeton neuroscientists scan their brains for traces of evil (video)
By Vlad Savov 
posted October 15th 2009 8:54AM
posted October 15th 2009 8:54AM
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Next up: mice with friggin lasers attached to their heads
am I the only person who thinks that this is kind a sick??
No, I don't mind animal experimentation, as long as we get some kind of benefit from it.
This just looks like some scientist had a 'crazy' idea.
I'm not sure how accurate data gained from this would be. It's quite far from a normal experience for the mouse.
what do you mean it's not a normal experience? it's like his head is caught in a tangle of grass and the mud beneath him is slippery.
If they use this to develop some high precision brain-computer interface i think it's worth it.
Imagine moving the mouse cursor and typing just by thinking about it, that would be awesome.
@James Barsby, mice in scientific experiments are rarely if ever immersed in a "natural experience". The data they provide is still valid and useful. The goal is not to give the mouse a natural experience and hope it provides useful data, but to collect the data a specifically engineered experiment/experience produces.
Aww, where are our Quake-derived virtual reality playgrounds?
can I get one in economy size? I guess the ball would have to go in the basement with the top peaking through to the main floor. I hope the head vice is comfortable.
The URL: mice-run-through-quake-princeton-neuroscientists-scan-their-bra. That's the true intention.
i don't know why this is orwellian, and i don't think the mouse cares about what's on the screen.
this is the story of a friendless neuroscience geek and his overhwelming longing for someone to play videogames with.
Sadly, after this experiment, this particular mouse becomes ill when listening to Beethoven and completely incapacitated if he gets in an argument with the other droogs....er, mice.
Those of you who think this is sick, animal cruelty, unnecessary, etc really have no concept of how and why animal studies like this are done, how complicated the approval process for stuff like this is, what measures are put into place to prevent unnecessary harm or stress to the animals, and how studies just like this have changed all of our lives in substantial ways.
If you really have issues with this stuff, you can go ahead and recuse yourself from pretty much all of modern medicine and go back to "bleeding" yourself when you're sick and trying to "balance your humors." You should also expect to die somewhere in your 40's.
Well, it sounds creepy, but not nearly as bad as the monkey with the robot arm from way back.
If anything, this is probably similar to the control system developed for insect-driven robots, which uses a crude series of lights to represent the robot's surroundings at the insect's scale, while the insect itself is locked into a stationary position just above a trackball controller.
Who designed this map? It sucks!
Also, the url is...ehm, just not right.
Yo dawg! We put a mouse on your mouse, so it can mouse while being a mouse.
Meme was already used above.
Sorry mate, missed that one!
This video sucks without NiN music.
Wow... it's almost exactly like the rig used to film Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" video, only backwards. Once they get the mouse brain mapped, human testing should be fairly trivial...
The cheese is a lie!