Novel Brain Implants Help Paralyzed People Speak Faster, More Accurately
High-performance brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) decoded brain activity into speech faster, more accurately, and with a bigger vocabulary than existing technologies, two early trials in Nature showed. In the BrainGate2 study, speech-to-text BCI that recorded activity from intracortical microelectrode arrays (MEAs) decoded the speech of a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 62 words per […]
A new brain-computer interface with a flexible backing: The flexible backing allows arrays of micro-scale needles to conform to the contours of the brain, which improves high-resolution brain recording
Engineering researchers have invented an advanced brain-computer interface with a flexible and moldable backing and penetrating microneedles. Adding a flexible backing to this kind of brain-computer interface allows the device to more evenly conform to the brain’s complex curved surface and to more uniformly distribute the microneedles that pierce the cortex. The microneedles, which are […]