Brain-computer Interfaces: a Powerful Tool for Scientific Inquiry

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Neurobiol

Specialties Biology
Neurology

Date 2014 Apr 9

PMID 24709603

Citations 20

Authors

Jeremiah D Wander

Rajesh P N Rao

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Abstract

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are devices that record from the nervous system, provide input directly to the nervous system, or do both. Sensory BCIs such as cochlear implants have already had notable clinical success and motor BCIs have shown great promise for helping patients with severe motor deficits. Clinical and engineering outcomes aside, BCIs can also be tremendously powerful tools for scientific inquiry into the workings of the nervous system. They allow researchers to inject and record information at various stages of the system, permitting investigation of the brain in vivo and facilitating the reverse engineering of brain function. Most notably, BCIs are emerging as a novel experimental tool for investigating the tremendous adaptive capacity of the nervous system.

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