{"id":30232,"date":"2016-09-15T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/brain-sensing-tech-helps-people-with-movement-disorders-communicate-via-text"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:40:03","slug":"brain-sensing-tech-helps-people-with-movement-disorders-communicate-via-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/brain-sensing-tech-helps-people-with-movement-disorders-communicate-via-text","title":{"rendered":"Brain-sensing tech helps people with movement disorders communicate via text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxD2KDq18_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New Stanford tech enables typing directly from brain signals.<\/p>\n<p>How many monkeys does it take to type a passage of Shakespeare? One monkey, equipped with brain-sensing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by scientists at Stanford University, the technology can directly read brain signals to drive a cursor moving over a keyboard. In an experiment with monkeys, the primates were able to transcribe passages from <em>Hamlet<\/em> and <em>The New York Times<\/em> at a rate of 12 words per minute. Earlier versions of the technology were successfully tested in people with paralysis, but the typing was slow and imprecise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicproducts.com\/Sensors_and_Transducers\/Sensors\/Brain_sensing_tech_helps_people_with_movement_disorders_communicate_via_text.aspx\">http:\/\/www.electronicproducts.com\/Sensors_and_Transducers\/Se..._text.aspx<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Stanford tech enables typing directly from brain signals. How many monkeys does it take to type a passage of Shakespeare? One monkey, equipped with brain-sensing technology. Developed by scientists at Stanford University, the technology can directly read brain signals to drive a cursor moving over a keyboard. In an experiment with monkeys, the primates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39415,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232\/revisions\/39415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}