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Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets

Rear-view of a woman wearing an EEG electrode cap looking at a screen covered in different coloured brain signals

Scientists have studied how brain–computer interfaces, such as this non-invasive cap, change brain activity. Credit: Silvia Marchesotti

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Nature 626, 706-708 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00481-2

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