{"id":238656,"date":"2026-06-09T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-brain-computer-interface-that-works-with-not-against-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:10:45","slug":"a-brain-computer-interface-that-works-with-not-against-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-brain-computer-interface-that-works-with-not-against-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"A brain-computer interface that works with\u2014not against\u2014the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-computer-interface-that-works-with-not-against-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might soon be \u201cgame over\u201d for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains. Using real-time fMRI (functional MRI), they confirmed that the technology could help humans control a computer with their brain activity in a highly efficient way. The study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-026-02311-2\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in the journal Nature Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>A BCI is technology that allows a human to control a computer with brain activity. Historically, they have not been effective. BCIs built using real-time neurofeedback from fMRI\u2014a type of MRI scan showing which areas of the brain are most active over time\u2014require up to 10 long training sessions per person, and even then the learning effects are modest. About a third of users never gain control, regardless of how many hours they practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might soon be \u201cgame over\u201d for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains. Using real-time fMRI (functional MRI), they confirmed that the technology could help humans control a computer with their brain activity in a highly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238656","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=238656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}