If you have ever wondered how fish get around without bumping into anything underwater, a research team in Israel decided the best way to get the answer was by wiring goldfish brains to a computer.
In a study (via The New York Times) conducted at Ben-Gurion University, researchers outfitted 15 goldfish with a special cyberpunk-esque headgear "to study this fundamental cognitive component in fish" by recording the "activity of neurons in the central area of the goldfish telencephalon while the fish were freely navigating in a quasi-2D water tank embedded in a 3D environment."
