| Title:
| Brain Signal Decoder
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| Description:
| Interfacing with the brain to control devices such as wheelchairs, robots and prosthetic devices has great potential. Monkeys have shown impressive ability to control robot limbs using brain implants, but must "rewire" their brains through training to do it. ... It would make things easier to use the signals naturally used for hand-eye coordination. But nobody has been able to figure out how the part of the brain responsible for hand-eye coordination, the primary motor cortex, does its job. Even recording the activity of this brain region has proved difficult. ... The result is a brain implant that can translate the hand trajectory signals produced by the brain and use them to control an external device.
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| Author:
| Justin Mullins
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| Orig. Date:
| August 02, 2008
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| Source:
| NewScientist.com
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| bruce buchanan <buchanan@cs.pitt.edu>
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| Comments:
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:43:33 -0700
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