brain-computer interface

(Newser) - Brain-computer interfaces give people with disabilities the ability to communicate by decoding signals in the brain. But what happens when these people don't want to communicate? A new study finds that a person's inner speech can be decoded in much the same way as attempted speech, raising questions...

(Newser) - Startup Paradromics has taken a major step forward in the brain-computer interface (BCI) race, announcing that its implant, Connexus, has been temporarily tested in a human for the first time. The 10-minute procedure was carried out during a May 14 epilepsy surgery at the University of Michigan, per Wired ...

(Newser) - The FDA has approved Neuralink's plan to put its brain implant in a second human patient—with adjustments for issues that arose with the first . Some 85% of the implant's electrode-containing threads became dislodged from Noland Arbaugh's motor cortex, severely limiting the data that could be gained...

(Newser) - A few months after receiving FDA approval to launch human trials, Neuralink is looking for people willing to let an experimental robot stick an equally experimental device into their brain. Elon Musk's brain-implant startup is seeking people over the age of 22 with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord...