Medical Xpress September 27, 2021
Graz University of Technology

For the first time ever, the intention of a continuous movement was able to be read out from non-invasive brain signals at TU Graz. This success enables more natural and non-invasive control of neuroprostheses to be carried out in real time.

Intended to give paraplegic people back some freedom of movement and thus a better quality of life, so-called (BCIs) measure the person’s brain activity and convert the electrical currents into control signals for neuroprostheses. “Controlling by thoughts,” as Gernot Müller-Putz puts it in simplified terms. The head of the Institute of Neural Engineering at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) is an “old hand” of BCI research and is intensively involved with non-invasive BCI systems. He and...

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