{"id":78119,"date":"2018-04-29T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds"},"modified":"2018-04-29T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:24:18","slug":"prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person\u2019s own memory patterns to facilitate the brain\u2019s ability to encode and recall memory.<\/p>\n<p>In the pilot study, published in today\u2019s Journal of Neural Engineering, participants\u2019 short-term memory performance showed a 35 to 37 percent improvement over baseline measurements. The research was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds\/\">https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/prosthetic-memory...udy-finds\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person\u2019s own memory patterns to facilitate the brain\u2019s ability to encode and recall memory. In the pilot study, published in today\u2019s Journal of Neural Engineering, participants\u2019 short-term memory performance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78119","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}