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

Restoring communication Jerry Tang and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a language decoder that translates brain activity data from functional MRI scans into a continuous ...

On one hand, there are dog people, and on the other, there are bird people. I identify as one of the latter. Not the kind of bird-man who celebrates secret personal victories allotted only to those ...

Artificial intelligence is starting to do more than transcribe what we say. By learning to read the brain’s own electrical ...

Restoring some language for aphasia sufferers, like Bruce Willis and a million other Americans, could involve AI. Brain activity like this, measured in an fMRI machine, can be used to train a brain ...

(A) After the electrodes were implanted, participants took part in the study in the wheelchair, reading sentences given visual cues. Audio data were collected using a directional microphone, and ...

Surgically implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also eavesdrop on their inner monologue. That's the conclusion of a study of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the journal Cell.