In a new paper researchers report on an ALS patient that had a small pad of experimental electrodes implanted into the motor cortex of a woman's brain that enabled her to communicate at 62 words per minute, normal speech is about 160.
A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.21.524489v1.full.pdf> This is especially impressive because previous implants had only allowed people to do simple things, like move a dot on a screen up or down and left or right, but speech involves the most complex and precise movements the human body is capable of. The patient did not have to give exact instructions on how to move her tongue or her lips, she just imagined that she was speaking normally and the machine could figure out what she was trying to say and only needed to monitor a few neurons to do it. It's a pity Stephen Hawking didn't have access to this technology. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 6cx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0GJ7FBR%3Drxa1Ds5rPzrJc%3Dvq2SBC1maYFthQ2XCfzAcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
