A brain-to-brain interface for real-time sharing of sensorimotor information

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pais Vieira, Miguel ^a   Lebedev, Mikhail ^a,c   Kunicki, Carolina ^d   Wang, Jing ^a,e   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84875282114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01319     Document Type: Article

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