BrainGate

Hardware

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Definition


BrainGate Neural Interface Device- a Devicebrainbrain-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 motorpatients 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 alone found in science fiction so far.
Surgeon Gerhard Friehs of Brown Medical School

From Forbidden Planet 1956

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