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Thursday, March 28, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/technology/circuits/28NEXT.html Don't Point, Just Think: The Brain Wave as Joystick ANNE EISENBERG A rhesus macaque monkey at a Brown University laboratory can move a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it — playing a pinball game in which every time a red target dot pops up, the monkey moves a cursor to meet the target quickly and accurately. The monkey doesn't do this trick with a mouse or a joystick. It plays the game mentally, controlling where it wants the cursor to go by thinking. (The simple pinball video game the monkey played can be viewed at http://donoghue.neuro.brown.edu/multimedia.php.)...
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