Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen
A person paralyzed from the neck down communicated using the brain-to-text technology
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A man with electrodes implanted in his brain imagined writing with a pen on paper and saw that text appear on screen, a new study reports.
F. Willett et al/Nature 2021, Erika Woodrum