Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation?
That’s the goal of an expanding research effort at U.S. universities, which over the last five years has proved that recording devices placed under the skull can capture brain activity associated with speaking.
Image: http://www.technologyreview.com/ - Mind recorder: A sheet of electrodes picks up electrical activity from the surface of the brain.
To read the original article: A Brain-Computer Interface for Speech | MIT Technology Review
