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Published online 27 August 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040823-18
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Mental ping-pong could aid paraplegics
Competitors learn to create brain signals that can control devices.
Neuroscientists have created a computer game based on table tennis that people can play using nothing more than the power of their minds. It is hoped that the technology will one day train people to generate neural signals that could control a wheelchair or communication device.
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