Researcher controls colleague's motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface

I was totally against this, but then I put on the cap, and now I can say I welcome it. Indeed, I must say that. Awaiting further commands.

There was an action&#x2F;sci-fi movie called Gamer a few years ago that <i>briefly</i> explored this kind of technology. I was still fascinated by what the script writers came up with - people whose job was to be real-world second life characters, prison inmates who were real-world bodies in a COD modern warfare style game called Slayers, and of course people committing crimes.

I always assumed we&#x27;d have private spaceships before we could decode the brain well enough to do something like this. Wow!

Yeah I&#x27;m sure the internet is a great place in which to plug our brains, what with all the collection going on. Last thing I want is for all this nightmare to become unopt-out-able.

This is really fascinating and I wish I had a better handle on the principles that underpin this kind of research. Can anyone recommend some starter books or papers that cover the subject? For background prior to reading some more advanced material, would it be better to get a primer in traditional neuroscience, or something like signals-processing?

Seems like one application of this would be for reflex enhancement in, say, a solider. Equip soldiers with a helmet which stimulated them to act quicker than they would have otherwise in response to visual&#x2F;auditory stimuli.