Neuroprosthetic that Learns with the Brain

Computerized devices tied into the brain could one day help amputees control prosthetic limbs with their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have gone a step further. Justin Sanchez and his team have devised a brain-machine interface that appears to learn and adapt along with the brain.
Sanchez: "These new technologies allow us to directly interface with the brain. We're able to implant electrodes into neural tissue, sense that activity, translate that activity into control commands for a computer in the prosthetic arm."
It all starts with implanting devices into the brain programmed with complex algorithms that interpret thoughts. It could all result in prosthetics that behave more naturally and efficiently.
Sanchez: "Patients that have paralysis or stroke, a variety of movement disorders, or even soldiers returning from Iraq who have lost a limb, could potentially benefit from this kind of technology. They would think about trying to control a prosthetic arm and that arm would move in response to their thoughts."
And the device that makes that happen will keep learning and adapting along the way.

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Science & Technology

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• Brain
• Machine
• Interface
• Neuroprosthetic
• Computer

[tedkanode123]

Thank you for posting your video for all to see :)

[PinkProgram]

You can always use a biological proxy for that.

[Aoitetsugakusha]

Not directly. The computer could in theory learn the same information that's in the brain, as long as it has some sort of access to those signals, but it isn't really a 'transfer' so to speak. For a prosthetic brain, we'd need a greater understanding of how information is consolidated.

[PinkProgram]

So could this help with transfering information into a prosthetic brain?