{"id":9732,"date":"2007-10-05T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T09:54:56","slug":"advances-in-wetware-interfacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9732","title":{"rendered":"Advances in Wetware Interfacing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\" target=\"new\">CNet News<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Scientists are making progress on neural devices that can translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into driving action for a prosthetic device. <\/p>\n<p> Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Wednesday that they&#8217;ve developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual&#8217;s brain activity to the person&#8217;s intentions; and then translate that intention into movement. <\/p>\n<p> Of course, other scientists have already done that, and built prototypes for neural brain-to-machine devices that can work for animals or humans. But each team has taken a different approach to the problem, such as developing algorithms for measuring activity in a specific brain region, or measuring them through EEGs vs. optical imaging. <\/p>\n<p> MIT said that it has developed a unified algorithm that can work within the parameters of these different approaches. Lakshminarayan &#8220;Ram&#8221; Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject, said MIT&#8217;s new graphical models are applicable no matter what measurement technique is used. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We don&#8217;t need to reinvent a new paradigm for each modality or brain region,&#8221; he said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p> Still, he said, the algorithm isn&#8217;t perfect, nor the final solution to solving what is a difficult problem. &#8220;Translating an algorithm into a fully functioning clinical device will require a great deal of work, but also represents an intriguing road of scientific and engineering development for the years to come,&#8221; according to MIT. <\/p>\n<p> MIT will publish a paper on the subject in the October edition of the Journal of Neurophysiology. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNet News: Scientists are making progress on neural devices that can translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into driving action for a prosthetic device. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Wednesday that they&#8217;ve developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual&#8217;s brain activity to the person&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advances in Wetware Interfacing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}