They each had one or two baby - aspirin - sized
electrode arrays placed in their brains to record signals from the motor cortex, a region controlling muscle movement.
Not exact matches
Also, the team plans to create devices with even higher density, including a double - sided microelectrode
array with 64
electrodes per tine instead of eight — making for a total of around 4,000
electrodes placed in the brain at once.
The team started by precisely
placing arrays of 32
electrodes in four brain areas of the mice.
In 2004, surgeons
placed a tiny 100 -
electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.