Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCI) read in neuron activity and use it generate useful actions, potentially giving paralyzed users control of a device. A common goal is to establish brain control…
Category: Man-Machine
The Impossibly Incongruous Cursor Control Task
The canonical mind-control task is to operate a thought mediated computer cursor to hit targets on a screen (that’s true for brain-computer interfaces anyway, but maybe not for Jedi). The…
The Entire Human Hand as a Joystick for Robots: What Would it Take?
Suppose you would like to control something with many degrees of freedom (engineering parlance for something complicated that has many parts of it that can move or take actions), how…
A New Way to Test Brain-Computer Interface Decoders: the jaBCI
The neuroscience community has been trying to build a brain-to-computer translator, that is, a system that records the electrical chatter of neurons and deciphers the thoughts of the person to…