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BETTER FUNCTION. “In a small study that used internal electrodes and deep brain stimulation, people were able to learn and remember routes through a city better. They even demonstrated improved spatial ability, and were better at figuring out shortcuts that could help them along the way.” http://www.businessinsider.com/brain-implants-will-give-us-superpowers-2014-4 View in LinkedIn

ELECTRIC TELEPATHY. “Ray’s mental cursor showed that locked-in patients could share their thoughts through a computer,” http://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/ View in LinkedIn

GRADUAL UNFOLDING. “By 2003 a lab at Arizona State University had put a set of implants inside a monkey that allowed the animal to bring a piece of orange to its mouth with a mind-controlled robotic arm. Some years later researchers at Brown University reported that two paralyzed patients had learned to use implants to control robot arms with such precision that one could take a swig of coffee from a bottle.” http://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/ View in LinkedIn

HISTORIC MOMENT. “As Philip R. Kennedy, physician and inventor, prepares a paralyzed man to operate a computer with his thoughts,” the article began, “it briefly seems possible a historic scene is unfolding in this hospital room and that Kennedy might be a new Alexander Graham Bell.” (1999). http://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/ View in LinkedIn

MONKEY DATA. “We demonstrate for the first time that kinesthetic feedback can be used together with vision to significantly improve control of a cursor driven by neural activity of the primary motor cortex (MI). Using an exoskeletal robot, the monkey's arm was moved to passively follow a cortically controlled visual cursor, thereby providing the monkey with kinesthetic information about the motion of the cursor.” http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/50/16777.full View in LinkedIn

EARLY RESULTS. “We demonstrate for what we believe is the first time the ability of the same ensemble of cells in closed-loop mode to control two distinct movements of a robotic arm: reaching and grasping. In addition, we demonstrate how the monkeys learn to control a real robotic actuator using a BMIc.” (BMIc = brain–machine interface). http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000042 View in LinkedIn