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60 Minutes: Decoding language of the brain [video]

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In the emerging technology diversion department, here's a cool video from 60 Minutes. Andrew Schwartz, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburg, has implanted a grid of electrodes inside a monkey's brain in order to listen to the different brain cells (or neurons) in an attempt to decode the language of the brain. [video=246031] And other parts of the package:

posted by Larry Dignan
November 3, 2008 @ 1:22 pm

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