Changing Visual Perception of Motion with Neural Implants
Hey, Question: what am I doing right now? Answer: I'm writing a blog post so I can explain to myself what I learned from reading this dry-ass paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/346174a0 Let me tell ya, it was a slog to get through! And if I'm being honest, as I type this...I'm not completely through it yet. My strategy for reading dry literature like this is to copy and paste the text into a Word document and then have Word read it aloud to me. That helps push me through the paper. Otherwise, I spend 30 minutes reading the same paragraph over and over, absorbing none of it. Another thing that really helps is uploading the PDF to ChatGPT and asking it questions about what the paper is telling me as I have it read aloud to me. Should I be ashamed to admit how much assistance from technology I require just to read a few pages of scientific literature? Possibly. Well, enough about my basic reading comprehension skills! On to monkey abuse in the name of sc...