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Brain to Computer Interfaces

By Krishna Shenoy - Stanford
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  • Fall 2008
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. In this short talk, Shenoy describes how his team of Stanford researchers has built a system that achieves typing at 15 words-per-minute, just by "thinking about it".

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond)
  2. Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)
  3. Brain to Computer Interfaces
  4. Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth)
  5. Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)
  6. Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)
  7. Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)