Nature Neuroscience
2, 583 - 584 (1999)
doi:10.1038/10131
Real-time control of a robotic arm by neuronal ensemblesEberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard Fetz is in the Department of Physiology and
Biophysics and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington
School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195
, USA.
fetz@u.washington.edu
Chapin and colleagues demonstrate that simultaneous recordings from ensembles
of cortical and thalamic neurons can be decoded in real time to allow a rat
to control a robotic arm. These results may ultimately lead to the design
of brain-operated prosthetic devices for human patients.
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