They put smashed bananas into the cats' brains to record the signals.
(It's less ridiculous than it sounds: Bananas contain a certain enzyme that helps to capture the neurons signals. The porridge they put around the sensors in the cats' brains contained many more things besides the bananas. My fiancee was studying that stuff in university.)
(It's less ridiculous than it sounds: Bananas contain a certain enzyme that helps to capture the neurons signals. The porridge they put around the sensors in the cats' brains contained many more things besides the bananas. My fiancee was studying that stuff in university.)