{"id":212168,"date":"2025-04-23T01:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/brain-machine-interface-study-reveals-how-intentions-and-actions-are-linked-in-time"},"modified":"2025-04-23T01:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:30:22","slug":"brain-machine-interface-study-reveals-how-intentions-and-actions-are-linked-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/brain-machine-interface-study-reveals-how-intentions-and-actions-are-linked-in-time","title":{"rendered":"Brain-machine interface study reveals how intentions and actions are linked in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-machine-interface-study-reveals-how-intentions-and-actions-are-linked-in-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person with otherwise paralyzed arms and legs to squeeze a ball when they want to.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the open-access journal <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.io\/421hAZm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PLOS Biology<\/i><\/a>, the study reveals temporal binding between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/intentions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">intentions<\/a> and actions, which makes actions seem to happen faster when they are intentional.<\/p>\n<p>Separating intentions from actions was made possible because of a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain-machine+interface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain-machine interface<\/a>. The participant was paralyzed with damage to their C4\/C5 vertebrae and had 96 electrodes implanted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hand\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hand<\/a> region of their motor cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person with otherwise paralyzed arms and legs to squeeze a ball when they want to. Published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, the study reveals temporal binding between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212168","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}