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>hearing jargon like “alpha waves” or “beta waves”. Participants would learn to move cursors by learning to create the neurological activity that was being listened for.

Previous efforts included moving a cursor with the implanted Utah array, which I don't think was just based on broad brain waves was it?

Are you thinking of non-invasive devices? Neuralink didn't invent implanted microelectrode arrays. Some of their press has been around being the first one wirelessly connected to a receiver, but it wasn't first there either. Mainly their roadmap for scaling to more and more electrodes and their custom chip for processing is what's new I think, but they aren't sure if the polymer coating they are using for will hold up long term.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715131/




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