Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis, M.D., P.hD, is a Brazilian scientist and physician, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues at Duke University implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm. This was possible by decoding signals of hundreds of neurons recorded in volitional areas of the cerebral cortex while the monkey...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 March 1961
CountryBrazil
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.