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Brain Gate

The document discusses BrainGate, a neural interface device that uses a tiny implanted chip with electrodes to detect brain signals and translate them into computer commands like cursor movements or controlling lights and TV. It has currently helped paralyzed patients communicate and may help control body functions in the future.

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Brain Gate

The document discusses BrainGate, a neural interface device that uses a tiny implanted chip with electrodes to detect brain signals and translate them into computer commands like cursor movements or controlling lights and TV. It has currently helped paralyzed patients communicate and may help control body functions in the future.

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BrainGate

Hardware

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Definition

BrainGate Neural Interface Device- a brain-computer interface that uses internal neural signal sensor and external processors to convert neural signals into an output signal under the users own control.

What It Is

The sensor consists of a tiny chip (smaller than a baby aspirin) with one hundred electrode sensors each thinner than a hair that detect brain cell electrical activity.

Basic Process

The electrode translates brain activity and sends the information to the computer in a format it can understand.

How it Works

BrainGate uses a sensor that is implanted onto the motor cortex of the brain. The device analyzes brain signals then interprets and translated them into cursor movements.

Current Applications

Navigate Internet Play Computer Games Turn Lights On and Off Control Television

Future Applications

Regulating Breathing
Controlling Body Functions

Benefits

can provide paralyzed or motor-impaired patients a mode of communication through the translation of thought into direct computer control.

Nagle, a 25-year-old quadriplegic is the first human fitted with the BrainGate Neural Interface.

Here we have a research participant who is capable of controlling his environment by thought alone something we have only found in science fiction so far.
Surgeon Gerhard Friehs of Brown Medical School

From Forbidden Planet 1956

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