Jason Silver

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Monkey Brains

This is so very cool:

Scientists have shown in multiple studies that monkeys can manipulate robotic devices with their thoughts. Turns out the thoughts run deep.

A new study finds a monkey's brain structure adapts to treat a robotic arm as if it was a natural appendage.

How cool is that? And it turns out they can move a computer's cursor around a screen by thinking it too!

Eventually, they were taught to move the cursor without using the joystick, instead just thinking about the task.

Here's the link.