Comments on: Controlling computers with the mind http://langabi.name/blog/2006/08/30/controlling-computers-with-the-mind Paul Cook's blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:46:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: paulcook http://langabi.name/blog/2006/08/30/controlling-computers-with-the-mind#comment-5498 paulcook Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:03:12 +0000 http://langabi.name/blog/2006/08/30/controlling-computers-with-the-mind#comment-5498 This technology probably won't be of any use for artificial limbs -- there's not enough specificity possible from scanning from outside the head. You'd probably need some sort of implant, or at least tight-fitting cap, either on the brain or nerve endings. But it's interesting research anyway! I suppose they didn't tell me which symbol was which just as extra proof of how I could work it out? I wasn't sure either. Measuring IQ from response speeds??? It's far from clear to me that they should be correlated at all... This technology probably won’t be of any use for artificial limbs — there’s not enough specificity possible from scanning from outside the head. You’d probably need some sort of implant, or at least tight-fitting cap, either on the brain or nerve endings. But it’s interesting research anyway!

I suppose they didn’t tell me which symbol was which just as extra proof of how I could work it out? I wasn’t sure either.

Measuring IQ from response speeds??? It’s far from clear to me that they should be correlated at all…

]]> By: Jonathan http://langabi.name/blog/2006/08/30/controlling-computers-with-the-mind#comment-5497 Jonathan Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:34:58 +0000 http://langabi.name/blog/2006/08/30/controlling-computers-with-the-mind#comment-5497 That is awesome. Would like to see the fMRI machine at work. Many years ago people were enabled to control their blood pressure and other automatic processes using bio feedback, but it did not require localisation in the brain. It will be great if they can refine the process to get artificial limbs working. Can't work out why they did not tell you which pattern was which. Hope this line of research is more productive than one for which I was once wired up for EEG measurement, in which they were trying to measure IQ through brain response speeds. That seemed to fade away. That is awesome. Would like to see the fMRI machine at work. Many years ago people were enabled to control their blood pressure and other automatic processes using bio feedback, but it did not require localisation in the brain. It will be great if they can refine the process to get artificial limbs working.

Can’t work out why they did not tell you which pattern was which.

Hope this line of research is more productive than one for which I was once wired up for EEG measurement, in which they were trying to measure IQ through brain response speeds. That seemed to fade away.

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