Brain scanner predicts your future moves

sea-maid submitted, created time 7 months 1 week (www.newscientist.com)

By scanning the brains of test subjects as they pressed one button or another--though not a computer mouse--researchers pinpointed a signal that divulged the decision about seven seconds before people ever realised their choice. The discovery has implications for mind-reading, and the nature of free will

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'Trust' hormone helps mind-reading too

Paramecium submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.newscientist.com)

THE trust hormone, it seems, is also the mind-reading hormone. A sniff of oxytocin, which underpins social attachment among animals, also turns out to improve men's ability to read other people's emotions.

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