More than 5 million people in the United States are affected by limb loss or paralysis. Technological devices that directly interact with the brain, known as brain-computer interfaces, offer the ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

The complexity, and importance, of our sense of touch is huge. Just think about reaching out for a piece of fruit on the table – you need touch to know when your fingers have reached, you need to ...

You might consider touch to be the least important of your five senses, but you would be wrong. Touch is central to your ability to orient yourself in space and move skillfully. The loss of touch also ...

An illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a ...

Neuroscience researchers have succeeded in restoring a young man's sense of touch and movement through a brain-computer interface (BCI) system. The study was published by teams at Battelle and the ...

Utah Brain Awareness Week teaches students and public about the brain and brain health, is incorporated into international STEM outreach effort (Salt Lake City) – Members of the public can touch a ...

One of the most stunning examples of the promise of brain implants is shown in a video in which a paralyzed person controls a robotic arm with nothing but her thoughts. The technology alone is ...

In 2018, when Leah Elias was a behavioral neuroscience graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, she noticed something unusual while stimulating nerves in a mouse’s back. The mouse was ...

David Caldwell received funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, University of Washington Institute for Neuroengineering, and the ARCS foundation. Rajesh P. N. Rao ...

(Salt Lake City) – Members of the public can touch a human brain or move a ball with their thoughts during Brain Awareness Day on Saturday, March 21 at the Leonardo museum. Admission to the entire ...