News tagged with cortex

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

16 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (25) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...

Microcephaly genes associated with human brain size

Medicine & Health / Genetics

13 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

A group of Norwegian and American researchers have shown that common variations in genes associated with microcephaly - a neuro-developmental disorder in which brain size is dramatically reduced - may explain differences ...