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Subject: BSP 78: Brain Machine Interfaces are changing how we understand the
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Here are the show notes for the latest episode of the Brain Science Podcast.
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Image removed by sender.In his book Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience
of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives
neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis
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NTOBmg>  puts his recent work with brain machine interfaces into historical
context and explains why this work should change the way we understand how
brains work. Nicolelis challenges several long-standing assumptions
including the primacy of the single neuron and strict localization, which is
the idea that each area of the brain has a relatively fixed function.

Episode 78
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PvpDFw>  of the Brain Science Podcast is a brief discussion of the key ideas
presented in Beyond Boundaries, including a look at the implications of
experiments such as the wide publicized work that culminated in
demonstrating that a monkey in Nicolelis' lab
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2BvnTw>  at Duke (North Carolina, USA) could control a robot arm in Japan
using only its brain. 

 

 
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References:


*
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zCLCpA>  Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with
Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives by Miguel Nicolelis (2011).
*
<http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CQO.F&m=3XiLzeLhOU9mbyh&b=3PE8KJFe3_yUxqKm
abWnNQ> In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric
R. Kandel (2006).
*	Nicolelis, Miguel A.L., Rick C. S. Lin, et al. "Peripheral block of
ascending cutaneous information induces immediate spatiotemporal changes in
thalamic networks.: Nature 361 (1993): 533-536. (Abstract
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zp3aNA> )
*	Nicolelis, Miguel A.L, and John K. Chapin
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d56AsQ> . "Controlling robots with the Mind." Scientific American 287, no. 4
(2002) 24-31.


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*	BSP 3:
<http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CQO.F&m=3XiLzeLhOU9mbyh&b=.2LAHiEjRd1CUTHz
MWNURw>  a discussion of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science
of Mind by Eric Kandel.
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kKu54Q> Networks of the Brain.


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