Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...
The brain’s chatter has always been partly out of reach, with electrical spikes easy to record but the chemical whispers ...
A person can bite their tongue to avoid blurting out a secret, but a surgically implanted brain computer interface can reveal words that were never meant to be spoken. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a ...
Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...
People with aphasia-a brain disorder affecting about a million people in the U.S.-struggle to turn their thoughts into words and comprehend spoken language. A pair of researchers at The University of ...
When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain is ...