It seems like dreaming and memory are still huge topics in popular science. I guess we can thank Hollywood (Eternal Sunshine, Inception). The article is about epileptic patients with intracranial electrodes and how they have particular MTL firing when viewing particular pictures. However, as it progresses across the internet and is re-written, some of the small details are lost. Like the fact that the brain recordings are done with electrodes implanted into someone’s brain. I think we have a few years before we get to Matrix-level human brain to computer interfacing.

Either way, it’s sort of amusing to see how removed from the science the articles get as you progress from source to source. I dub it the “Science of Kevin Bacon.”

It goes from a Nature article, to the BBC news, to a gawker.com blog. If I can find someone crosslink to Gawker, and subsequently later reach six degrees of separation, that would be awesome.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/full/nature09510.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11635625

http://gawker.com/5675295/scientist-says-a-dream-tivo-is-possible