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Put your hands up. drop the knife. drop it. >> reporter: while the volunteers make split second decisions, brain waves and hard rates checked part of an ambitious research project at washington state university partly funded by the defense department with the goal of improving justice in america. >> we dont know yet still 100 some years since teddy roosevelt had the first police firearms training in new york, we still dont know whether theres a connection between the training we give police offi...

A constant problem remembering where you kept your keys or last names or first names, she should laugh it off. patti ann browne has the details of this. >> are you stressing out over losing your memory? well, dont because stress makes your memory worse and new research suggests that laughter improves short-term memory by lowering stress hormones. a university in california studied older adults. half watched a funny video for 20 minutes while the others sat calmly without the video. afterwards th...

>> it reads their minds or reads their eyes? >> the brain control is done using brain waves so im just measuring attention levels using the mobile headset. its not reading their minds, no. but im also using eye being tra tracking to determine where they are looking at. >> thank you so much into when crews come back, minutes away from first daylight when they plan to resume their search for flight 370. will the planes be able to take off? were going to go live to perth, australia, right after thi...

Your mind gets caught in repetiti repetition, in fearful thoughts and phobias. scientistic studies show after two to three days the brain waves shift toward stupor or delirium. i was in for 410 days, shane and josh in for four months. >> what was the sense, did you have -- what was your relationship to your jailers like? did you have correspondence? did you communicate in any way? did you have a sense that the end was coming before you finally got released? >> well, my main interrogator, he play...

Distinguish more patterns. >> clearly different dogs have different brain waves but the head set is hoping to come up with the most common patterns and use those to make up the short sentences. we havent not actually heard a dog speak because the maker still has some hurdles to overcome, like exactly how do you hook up the sensors into the dogs brain without crossing the ethical line and having animal rights activist goes crazy. the head sets are not for sale but you can preorder them for anywhe...

The brain is not an organ that can be regenerated or can be regenerated by, you know, physicians or any other type of medical procedure. she is dead. shes being kept -- essentially being oxygen nated by the ventilator. and thats keeping her alive. but shes not getting any nutrition. the brain does not function. there are no brain waves. theres no blood flow to the brain. while im not a doctor, i know that much and i know theres no legal way to have this child saved under the law, under insurance...

Thanks for starting your morning with us. the next our of "new day" starts now. two convicted killers still on the run after a major blunder. >> they were released based on those court orders we received. >> now a man hunt is on to get them back in frizz. >> a 14-year-old teen with autism is missing. can his mothers voice help him find his way home? why police are turning to a train yard this more? >> these smart phones are not making us very smart. how technology is zapping our brain waves no...

Scientists measured how well people keep a beat to a metronome and compared that to data from participants brain waves as they listened to people speaking. those with better rhythm had a more consistent brain response to speech sounds. we want to keep you posted on whats happening in washington. right now senator dick durbin on the senate floor talking about the government shutdown. harry reid wrapped up a minute ago. and then on the house side a hearing to talk about verterans who are sufferi...

For the u.s. economy. and the grateful dead mickey hart takes brain waves to a whole new level. youre watching "first look" on nbc. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you cant create the future...

Brain activity patterns in these animals we saw. and theres a surge of high-frequency brain waves in the frequency we call a gamma. so those frequency waves increase in power density. and not only that, different parts of the brain actually collaborate with each other in this synergistic way. very coherent manner. so the front of the brain is communicating with the back of the brain in a very meaningful manner. so those are really the key features were looking for. >> so when that burst of brain...