Restoring Autonomy for People with Paralysis
A team of engineers, neuroscientists, and neurosurgeons at UC Davis and UC Davis Health has made a groundbreaking discovery.
They have demonstrated that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can not only translate brain signals into speech but also enable control of a computer cursor.
“Future steps in multimodal BCIs could include gesture decoding for all sorts of different things, enriching the types of interactions someone with paralysis can have with their environment beyond speech,”said Tyler Singer-Clark, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student and first author on the paper.
Their findings, published in the Journal of Neuroengineering and supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, pave the way for feature-rich BCIs that restore functions to people with paralysis.
Author's summary: Engineers and neurosurgeons restore autonomy for paralyzed people.
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