neuroscience
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Using Just His Thoughts, Paralysed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a Minute
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have translated the cognitive signals associated with handwriting into text, and in real time. The new technique is more than twice as fast than the previous method, allowing a paralysed man to text at a rate of 90 characters per minute.
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New Research Shows How Covid-19 Can Trigger Brain Damage
New research out today looks to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study suggests that while the viral infection may not directly reach the brain in most cases, it can spark the sort of destructive inflammation that’s seen with other neurological conditions, like stroke.
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Will It Ever Be Possible to Share Dreams?
People say other people’s dreams are boring, but what if the problem is technology? As a sense-conveying device, human speech is subpar, prone to gaps, stutters and falsifications, intentional or otherwise. If you could just literally show someone your dreams — suck them out of your skull and toss them onto the nearest screen —…
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What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project
Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology, on Friday, August 28. It sounds like science fiction, but research in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, though we’re still far from being able to send emails with our minds. Unlike Musk’s other famous ventures, SpaceX…