Showing posts with label mind and the brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind and the brain. Show all posts

Saturday, March 26, 2011

mind controlled movement in handicapped person

BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone
“...after 1,000 days a woman who has no functional use of her limbs and is unable to speak can reliably control a cursor on a computer screen using only the intended movement of her hand ...

The woman...performed two “point-and-click” tasks each day by thinking about moving the cursor with her hand. In both tasks she averaged greater than 90 percent accuracy. Some on-screen targets were as small as the effective area of a Microsoft Word menu icon."