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.
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
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.