The Utah Intracortical Electrode Array: A recording structure for potential brain-computer interfaces

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 228-239

  Maynard, Edwin M ^a   Nordhausen, Craig T ^a   Normann, Richard A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b 506 Biopolymers Research Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

brain computer interfaces; microelectrodes; multi unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPUTER; ELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031106324     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(96)95176-0     Document Type: Article

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