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BRAIN–MACHINE INTERFACES

Increasing power efficiency

Nature Biomedical Engineering volume 4, pages 937–938 (2020)Cite this article

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Narrow-bandwidth signals and relaxed neural-recording parameters can substantially reduce the power requirements of brain–machine interfaces without degrading their performance.

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Fig. 1: Two strategies for reducing the power requirements of brain–machine interfaces.

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