Losing the ability to speak after a brain injury or due to disease leaves a person unable to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas, and can be incredibly isolating. In two recently published ...

A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...

We often take speech for granted. In a few seconds or less, brain activity fires, vocal muscles contract, and words spill out. Scientists have long sought to replicate this flurry of activity with ...

When Jaimie Henderson was 5 years old, his father was in a devastating car crash. The accident left his father barely able to move or speak. Henderson remembers laughing at his dad's jokes, though he ...

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the ...

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...

One of the boldest emerging sciences is the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Broadly speaking, BCIs are essentially tools by which brain signals and thoughts can be relayed into tangible ...