{"id":151639,"date":"2022-12-01T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuralink-has-an-amazing-monkey-who-writes-words-with-his-brain"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:38","slug":"neuralink-has-an-amazing-monkey-who-writes-words-with-his-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuralink-has-an-amazing-monkey-who-writes-words-with-his-brain","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink has an amazing monkey who writes words with his brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-has-an-amazing-monkey-who-writes-words-with-his-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is trying to help the paralyzed to move again, through electrodes in the cerebral cortex.<\/p>\n<p>Neuralink, the strange and somewhat vague brainchild of Elon Musk, held an event Wednesday that the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter called a \u201cshow and tell.\u201d And show and tell it did \u2014 as a monkey welcomed the audience by typing a message through a brain-computer interface.<\/p>\n<p>Neuralink\u2019s product records action potentials of neurons in the brain. This is done by placing an electrode close enough to the synapse of two neurons in the brain and taking a recording of its electrical impulse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is trying to help the paralyzed to move again, through electrodes in the cerebral cortex. Neuralink, the strange and somewhat vague brainchild of Elon Musk, held an event Wednesday that the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter called a \u201cshow and tell.\u201d And show and tell it did \u2014 as a monkey welcomed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151639","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}