Theexperiment also shows that a new sensory input can be interpreted by a region of the brain that normally does something else (without having to "hijack" the function of that brain region).
Students, parents and activists opposed to state control in Newark often say the state's nearly 20-year reign of control shows that theexperiment has been a failure.
But Mr Broadbent pulls together some striking evidence in support, including this wild and wacky chart (below) which looks like an electrical experiment gone wrong, but actually showsthe movement of output across 81 sectors of the economy since the late 1990s.
In one experiment that Deisseroth shows to lab visitors, a pulse of light to the right side of a mouse's motor cortex makes the animal run in circles to the left.