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Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (104) | comments 27 feature

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Thought-controlled computers on the way: Intel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers controlled by the mind are going a step further with Intel's development of mind-controlled computers. Existing computers operated by brain power require the user to mentally move ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

'Sound' science offers platform for brain treatment and manipulation

The ability to diagnose and treat brain dysfunction without surgery, may rely on a new method of noninvasive brain stimulation using pulsed ultrasound developed by a team of scientists led by William "Jamie" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Advanced Robotic Arm Controlled by Monkey’s Thoughts (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a monkey controlling an advanced robotic arm by using its thoughts. The experiments were led by Dr. Andrew Schwartz, a professor ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 29 | with audio podcast weblog

Brain implant reveals the neural patterns of attention

A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists crack brain's codes for noun meanings

Two hundred years ago, archaeologists used the Rosetta Stone to understand the ancient Egyptian scrolls. Now, a team of Carnegie Mellon University scientists has discovered the beginnings of a neural Rosetta ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Study shows new brain connections form rapidly during motor learning

(PhysOrg.com) -- New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of Cal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New Features Found in Einstein's Brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- When one thinks of Einstein, it is natural to assume that obviously his brain differed from that of the average person. And, ever since Thomas Harvey, a pathologist in Princeton, removed Einste ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (43) | comments 27 weblog

Researchers regenerate axons necessary for voluntary movement

For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Size matters: Length of songbirds' playlists linked to brain region proportions

Call a bird "birdbrained" and they may call "fowl." Cornell University researchers have proven that the capacity for learning in birds is not linked to overall brain size, but to the relative size and proportion of their ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Robot arm improves performance of brain-controlled device

The performance of a brain-machine interface designed to help paralyzed subjects move objects with their thoughts is improved with the addition of a robotic arm providing sensory feedback, a new study from ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain powered robot

(PhysOrg.com) -- A squat, circular robot scurries along the floor of a laboratory, moving left, then right, then left again, before coming to a stop. A Northeastern University student researcher commands the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Human brain recognizes and reacts to race

The human brain fires differently when dealing with people outside of one's own race, according to new research out of the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Observation about how nervous system learns and encodes motion could improve stroke recovery

Bioengineers have taken a small step toward improving physical recovery in stroke patients by showing that a key feature of how limb motion is encoded in the nervous system plays a crucial role in how new ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast