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Reading Minds with Ultrasound: A Less-Invasive Technique to Decode the Brain's Intentions - www.caltech.edu

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A new brain imaging application developed at Caltech uses ultrasound to predict intended movements before they happen

What is happening in your brain as you are scrolling through this page? In other words, which areas of your brain are active, which neurons are talking to which others, and what signals are they sending to your muscles? Mapping neural activity to corresponding behaviors is a major goal for neuroscientists developing brain–machine interfaces (BMIs): devices that read and interpret brain activity and transmit instructions to a computer or machine. Though this may seem like science fiction, existing BMIs can, for example, connect a paralyzed person with a robotic arm; the device interprets the…

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