Brain-Computer Interface Works With Speech Centers

Scottingham writes "Science Daily reports on new research that uses electrodes placed in the speech centers of the brain to move a cursor around the screen. Participants were instructed to utter different vowel sounds while their neural activity was parsed and analyzed. Once analyzed and connected to a cursor-control program, participants quickly learned to use the different vowel sounds to move a cursor around a screen. The system can distinguish between actual speech and the cursor controlling thought sounds."

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Cubicle Terror

[PolygamousRanchKid]

Cubicle Mate: "Ooooh . . . aaahhhh . . . uuummmm . . . "

Me: "Shut up, God dammit!"

Cubicle Mate: "Hey, I'm just using this new technology to move the cursor around the screen."

Me: "Well, what this technology needs, is some of that week old pizza, with the green stuff growing on it shoved down your throat!"

Cubicle Mate: "hmmmfhj kdkfdd . . . sdfeffff . . ."