I am pretty sure brain waves can eb read through the skull. But can information be inputted into the brain through the skull. For example, into the the occipital lobe in order to alter what is seen? I am talking in theory.

I am pretty sure brain waves can eb read through the skull .
Well obviously eletric fields caused by brain activity can be detected through the skull, but you can't really read anything so crude in the way you mean.

But can information be inputted into the brain through the skull. For example, into the the occipital lobe in order to alter what is seen? I am talking in theory.
No you would have to have something in contact with the brain for that sort of thing. Unless you know something physics doesn't.

Thank you imaplanck. So where would the implant likely be? The back of the neck? or would it have to be into the seperate areas of the brain?

Thank you imaplanck. So where would the implant likely be? The back of the neck? or would it have to be into the seperate areas of the brain?
Definitely on the surface of the brain, appart from us not knowing the wiring of the spinal cord Im pretty sure no visual information passes through the brain stem. Anyway have you looked at research done for auditory inplants, visual cortex implants and such?

Here is info re: a brain implant that can process thoughts into action for paraplegics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1819178,00.html

Yeah, you can read waves from a brain from outside of the skull. But you can't (that I know of) insert thoughts that way.

Here's a cool thing I found somewhere that you might find interesting anyway.

It's about transcranial magnetic stimulation and how it can bring out savant skills in normal people. Fascinating stuff.


rTMS was used in these subjects to test the general hypothesis that temporary disruption of the left fronto-temporal lobe brain function would enable developmentally normal persons to access mechanisms that might permit the emergence of savant like skills in tasks such as memory, calendar calculating, artistic ability, linguistic representation and mathematical ability.



http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/rtms.cfm

I am pretty sure brain waves can eb read through the skull. But can information be inputted into the brain through the skull. For example, into the the occipital lobe in order to alter what is seen? I am talking in theory.

That idea was used in a William Gibson novel, Virtual Light, in which a pair of glasses transmitted information to the optic nerve to give an information overlay on what the wearer was looking at. I think there was an epilogue to the novel that cited a research paper describing the idea.