Brain-machine interfaces: past, present and future

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 536-546

  Lebedev, Mikhail A ^a   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33747876221     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2006.07.004     Document Type: Review

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