{"id":122680,"date":"2021-05-18T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/brain-computer-interface-translates-brain-signals-associated-with-handwriting-into-text"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:22:17","slug":"brain-computer-interface-translates-brain-signals-associated-with-handwriting-into-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/brain-computer-interface-translates-brain-signals-associated-with-handwriting-into-text","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Computer Interface Translates Brain Signals Associated with Handwriting into Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-computer-interface-translates-brain-signals-associated-with-handwriting-into-text.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the BrainGate Collaboration have deciphered the brain activity associated with handwriting: working with a 65-year-old (at the time of the study) participant with paralysis who has sensors implanted in his brain, they used an algorithm to identify letters as he attempted to write them; then, the system displayed the text on a screen; by attempting handwriting, the participant typed 90 characters per minute \u2014 more than double the previous record for typing with a brain-computer interface.<\/p>\n<p>So far, a major focus of brain-computer interface research has been on restoring gross motor skills, such as reaching and grasping or point-and-click typing with a computer cursor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers with the BrainGate Collaboration have deciphered the brain activity associated with handwriting: working with a 65-year-old (at the time of the study) participant with paralysis who has sensors implanted in his brain, they used an algorithm to identify letters as he attempted to write them; then, the system displayed the text on a screen; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}