Neurologists at the University of California at Davis studied the response of the human brain to teleportation - a hypothetical instantaneous movement of an object over a distance. The research results are published in the journal Neuron, briefly reported by EurekAlert !.
Scientists studied the response of three patients undergoing treatment for epilepsy at the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California at Davis to simulate instantaneous movement in space.
Subjects who volunteered to participate in the experiment were shown a video simulating continuous movement in space, which was interrupted by changes in the picture associated with teleportation. The response of patients was studied using electrodes implanted in their brain.
Scientists did not notice an interruption in the rhythms of the hippocampus of the brain, but they recorded a change. The reason for this, according to neuroscientists, was changes in memory and learning associated with the peculiarities of the brain's processing of teleportation.
Previously, neuroscientists assumed that the rhythms of the hippocampus are at least partially associated with external influences. In routine medical practice, electrodes have been used by scientists to study the processes occurring in the brain during epileptic seizures.