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.
Not exact matches
Despite these challenges, Moritz thinks that
smaller electrodes, smart engineering — such as floating
electrode arrays under the skull — and advances in wireless technology could provide an answer to paralysis in as little as 10 years.
Neurosurgeons attached the
electrode array, called BrainGate, to a
small pedestal on top of each patient's head, from which wires stretch to a computer.
«One such NTE - e hosted a linear
array of
electrodes with a cross-sectional profile of 0.8 μm × 8 μm, which is the
smallest among all reported to our knowledge.»