Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)

A man who is unable to move or speak can now generate words and sentences on a computer using only his thoughts.

The ability comes from an experimental implanted device that decodes signals in the man’s brain that once controlled his vocal tract, as researchers reported Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.  Continue reading the article here…

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