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Lesson 2Social Media

Listening

Scientists Create 'Social Network' of Brains to Share Thoughts 5

1.Listen to the recording and match the first and the second part of the sentences.

a. The team used electronic tools

b. In the game, players try

C.During the game, two players

d. The decisions were then transmitted through the internet

to match colored blocks falling onto a puzzle.

to the brain of the receiver, who could not see the video game.

were chosen as "senders"and a third as a "receiver."

to complete the test of brain-to-brain communication.

2Paraphrasing. Listen to the recording again and write, in your own words, the meaning of the following sentences.

a. They believe their experiment is the very first of its kind.

b. The game was a simplified version of the video game Tetris, which became hugely popular in the 1980s.

C The researchers wrote that the results "raise the possibility of future brain-to-brain interfaces that enable cooperative problemsolving by humans using a'social network'of connected brains."

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