FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science is leading the multidisciplinary
team that has received a four - year, $ 1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health for a project titled «
Virtual Neuroprosthesis: Restoring Autonomy to People Suffering from Neurotrauma.»
Instead, the
team used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) to detect populations of cells that seemed to fire as the volunteers played a
virtual reality game in which they had to replace an object in the location where they originally found it.