Monkey 'brain net' raises prospect of human brain-to-brain connection

In two separate experiments, scientists have formed a network from the brains of monkeys and rats, allowing them to co-operate and learn as a "superbrain"

Scientists have linked together the brains of three monkeys, allowing the animals to join forces and control an avatar arm, in research that raises the prospect of direct brain-to-brain interfaces in humans.

In a second experiment, the brains of four rats were wired together in a "brain net", enabling the rodents to synchronise their neuronal activity and collaboratively solve a simple weather forecasting problem that individual rats struggled to complete.