BrainGate Hardware Summer Bird Kacie Johnson Gitau Muchane Jonathan Wright Washington Farver

Definition BrainGate Neural Interface Device- a ‘brain-computer’ interface that uses internal neural signal sensor and external processors to convert neural signals into an output signal under the users own control. BrainGate Neural Interface Device- a ‘brain-computer’ interface that uses internal neural signal sensor and external processors to convert neural signals into an output signal under the users own control.

What It Is The sensor consists of a tiny chip (smaller than a baby aspirin) with one hundred electrode sensors each thinner than a hair that detect brain cell electrical activity. The sensor consists of a tiny chip (smaller than a baby aspirin) with one hundred electrode sensors each thinner than a hair that detect brain cell electrical activity.

Basic Process The electrode translates brain activity and sends the information to the computer in a format it can understand. The electrode translates brain activity and sends the information to the computer in a format it can understand.

How it Works BrainGate uses a sensor that is implanted onto the motor cortex of the brain. The device analyzes brain signals then interprets and translated them into cursor movements. BrainGate uses a sensor that is implanted onto the motor cortex of the brain. The device analyzes brain signals then interprets and translated them into cursor movements.

Current Applications Navigate Internet Navigate Internet Play Computer Games Play Computer Games Turn Lights On and Off Turn Lights On and Off Control Television Control Television

Future Applications Regulating Breathing Regulating Breathing Controlling Body Functions Controlling Body Functions

Benefits can provide paralyzed can provide paralyzed or motor-impaired or motor-impaired patients a mode of patients a mode of communication through communication through the translation of thought the translation of thought into direct computer control. into direct computer control. Nagle, a 25-year-old quadriplegic, is the first human fitted with the BrainGate Neural Interface.

“Here we have a research participant who is capable of controlling his environment by thought alone– something we have only found in science fiction so far.” “Here we have a research participant who is capable of controlling his environment by thought alone– something we have only found in science fiction so far.” – Surgeon Gerhard Friehs of Brown Medical School From Forbidden Planet 1956

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