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How AI and neuroscience drive each other forwards

Bringing together artificial intelligence and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields.
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Chethan Pandarinath wants to enable people with paralysed limbs to reach out and grasp with a robotic arm as naturally as they would their own. To help him meet this goal, he has collected recordings of brain activity in people with paralysis. His hope, which is shared by many other researchers, is that he will be able to identify the patterns of electrical activity in neurons that correspond to a person’s attempts to move their arm in a particular way, so that the instruction can then be fed to a prosthesis. Essentially, he wants to read their minds.

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Nature 571, S15-S17 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02212-4

This article is part of Nature Outlook: The brain, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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  • Clarification 21 August 2019: An earlier version of this article omitted one of Chethan Pandarinath’s affiliations.

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