Sentences with phrase «electrode array implanted»

The Argus II artificial retina system leverages a video camera mounted a pair of glasses, a portable microprocessor and an electrode array implanted in the eye.

Working on the internally - funded project for nearly a decade to develop the algorithms, software and stimulation sleeve, Battelle scientists first recorded neural impulses from an electrode array implanted in a paralyzed person's brain.

These participants had electrode arrays implanted in their brains» motor cortex for the trial.

Participants had either one or two tiny (one - sixth - inch) electrode arrays implanted on the surfaces of their brains.

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The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain.

Liu and his team implanted a pair of small electrode arrays in two parts of the posterior parietal cortex, one that controls reach and another that controls grasp.

He recently implanted an array of electrodes about the size of a freckle in the motor cortex of two macaques.

Merging man and machine The spectacular successes of brain implants in primates has paved the way for new human trials, including one at Brown University, where neuroscientist John Donoghue is moving ahead with BrainGate, a minuscule array of tiny, spikelike electrodes implanted in the motor cortex.

In a new study by Flesher et al., microelectrode arrays were implanted into the primary somatosensory cortex of a person with spinal cord injury and, by delivering current through the electrodes, generated sensations of touch that were perceived as coming from his own paralyzed hand.

Delgado implanted similar electrode arrays, or «stimoceivers,» in the brains of cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, and even human psychiatric patients.

A post-operation fluoroscopy shows an electrode array and neurostimulator implanted in Rob Summers.

In late 2009, Harkema and Edgerton's team implanted the electrode array directly over Summers» dura.

Intracortical BCIs such as BrainGate use a tiny array of implanted electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons in the motor cortex of the brain.

The implant features an array of fractal electrodes designed to stimulate retinal neurons.

The BrainGate implant's array of 100 hair - thin electrodes delves the cortex and eavesdrops on neurons that normally control hand and arm movement.

In 1964, José Delgado, a neuroscientist from Yale University, stood in a Spanish bullring as a bull with a radio - equipped array of electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward him.

Using an array of hair - thin electrodes implanted in his brain, a 25 - year - old quadriplegic man was able to operate a computer, open and close a prosthetic hand, and manipulate a robotic arm just by thinking about it, according to a new study.

The implant is a square silicon chip just four millimeters (about 1/6 of an inch) wide, studded with an array of 100 hair - thin electrodes.

Led by Hong and Majaj, they implanted arrays of electrodes in the IT cortex as well as in area V4, a part of the visual system that feeds into the IT cortex.

BrainGate has developed a device, named after itself, which is composed of an «aspirin - sized array of electrodes» that is implanted in the motor cortex, the area of the brain primarily responsible for voluntary movement.

The participants were implanted with an electrode array for epidural stimulation, and individual configurations for stimulation were identified for each participant.

Scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that they have been able to implant a chip in Burkhart's brain that sends signals to an array of 130 electrodes embedded in a «sleeve» he wears on his arm that has given him the ability to move his hand with significant accuracy.

An implant system consists of an external speech processor, located entirely behind the ear, and an internal, surgically implanted electrode array.