Brain-Controlled Cursor

Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor Takes a Leap Forward

Yahoo! Tech | September 28, 2015

Scientists working to perfect a thought-controlled computer cursor said Monday they have achieved their best results yet, and are moving closer to creating a version that paralysis victims can use.

Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/a/29661715/thought-controlled-computer-cursor-takes-a-leap-forward/

The device works twice as fast as in previous trials after American developers found better ways to read brain activity and fine-tuned its hardware and software, according to results published in the journal Nature Medicine.

<more at https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/thought-controlled-computer-cursor-takes-leap-forward-182159259.html; related links: http://braingate2.org/ (Turning Thought into Action) and http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3953.html (Clinical translation of a high-performance neural prosthesis. Vikash Gilja, Chethan Pandarinath, Christine H. Blabe, Paul Nuyujukian, John D. Simeral, Anish A. Sarma, Brittany L. Sorice, János A. Perge, Beata Jarosiewicz, Leigh R. Hochberg, Krishna V. Shenoy & Jaimie M. Henderson. Nature Medicine (2015) doi:10.1038/nm.3953. Published online September 28, 2015. [Abstract: Neural prostheses have the potential to improve the quality of life of individuals with paralysis by directly mapping neural activity to limb- and computer-control signals. We translated a neural prosthetic system previously developed in animal model studies for use by two individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who had intracortical microelectrode arrays placed in motor cortex. Measured more than 1 year after implant, the neural cursor-control system showed the highest published performance achieved by a person to date, more than double that of previous pilot clinical trial participants.])>