Israeli Researchers Pursue Brain-Operated Computing
From: Jerusalem Post - 11/15/2010
By: Gali Weinreb 

Tel Aviv University (TAU) scientists are developing a miniature electronic
component that can read signals from nerve cells and transmit them to a
computer. The researchers, led by TAU professor Yael Hanein, hope to develop
a computer that can recognize different brain patterns for characterizing
words, body movements, and other human brain functions. The researchers are
working to develop components that could be part of an artificial eye. "Here,
the component has to perform the opposite task, one that is perhaps even more
complicated - to read the situation in the outside world, and to transmit
this to the nerve cells in a form they can understand," Hanein says. The
researchers are building their brain-computer interface using technologies
from a variety of fields, including medicine, chemistry, biology, electrical
engineering, and zoology. "Several paralyzed people already use this
technology to communicate with the world," Hanein says. "They move the cursor
very slowly, and there are still mistakes, but now the road doesn't seem so
long."  

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Links:
Yael Hanein
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~hanein/
http://www2.tau.ac.il/nano/researcher.asp?id=adglhhgfh

Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine's Horizon
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322143221.htm

Nano Retina
http://www.nano-retina.com/