Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center have enabled a patient to 'speak' using only thought.
The speech neuroprosthesis experiment. It shows the participant who is completely silent, with his mouth closed, imagining saying a syllable. The laptop"says" the syllable for him.Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center succeeded in reading a patient’s thoughts with a speech-brain-computer interface, a groundbreaking new study.
Not only does this experiment provide a rare glimpse into the depths of the human brain, but it may also ultimately help completely paralyzed individuals express themselves once again.Firstly, the study was a collaboration between Dr. Ariel Tankus of TAU’s School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center , Dr. Ido Strauss of TAU’s School of Medical and Health Sciences, and the director of the Functional Neurosurgery Unit at Ichilov Hospital.
Furthermore, he was also part of an even smaller subset within this group, where the focus seems to be deeper in the brain, rather than on the surface of the cortex. The focus refers to “the source of the ‘short’ that’s sending powerful electrical waves through the brain,” he continued. So, the patient used in the study already had these “brain readers” in place and was in the hospital waiting to have another seizure, as this type of epileptic must do. It is only during the seizure that doctors can discern where the focus is, so they can operate.With electrodes already implanted and consent given, researchers asked the patient to repeat the syllables /a/ and /e/ out loud.
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