Researchers are looking forward to find out if a specific kind of 'mind reading' is possible by using some serious computers. Researchers from the University of Washington conducted a study to observe the possibility of a 'brain-to-brain' interface between two individuals, which could let them communicate with brainwaves and a specifically designed computer.

The research team arranged a game like '20 Questions', where an individual would have a query of the other respondent. After that, the respondent would concentrate on the answer to that query by seeing either a 'Yes' or 'No' flashing light in a different room.

The two individuals were in separate rooms that were almost a mile apart, according to the study. After that, the second individual's EEG brainwaves were returned to the first individual through a magnetic coil behind his head. The device is intended to stimulate the visual cortex in order that the first individual views a flash of light. If the individual observes that flash of light, they know to reply yes.

According to lead author Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, it was the most complex brain-to-brain research. As per Stocco, "Evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on".