Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

We all talk to ourselves in our heads. It could be a pep talk heading into a wedding speech or chaotic family reunion or motivating yourself to quit procrastinating. This inner speech also hides ...

A participant is using the inner speech neuroprosthesis. The text above is the cued sentence, and the text below is what's being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence. Scientists ...

The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest ...

(CN) — Brain-computer interfaces that connect the brain’s electrical activity with an external device have been able to help those with cognitive or motor impediments — including, researchers now say, ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...