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Device reads brain activity to help locked-in people communicate

It can tell whether a completely paralyzed person is thinking “yes” or “no”
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A new idea for letting people with locked-in syndrome communicate
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Paralysis patients could play music with their minds, using a new brain-control interface that senses brain impulses and translates them...
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