Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
Monkey "Closed Loop" Manipulation
From Wired News, another presentation from Neuroscience 2004:
Advent of the Robotic Monkeys
By David Cohn
01:00 PM Oct. 26, 2004 PT Wired News
If a monkey is hungry but has his arms pinned, there's not much he can do about it. Unless that monkey can control a nearby robotic arm with his brain.
And that's exactly what the monkey in Andrew Schwartz 's neurobiology lab at the University of Pittsburgh can do, feeding himself using a prosthetic arm controlled solely by his thoughts.
If mastered, the technology could be used to help spinal cord injuries, amputees or stroke victims. "I still think prosthetics is at an early stage ... but this is a big step in the right direction," said Chance Spalding, a bioengineering graduate student who worked on the project.
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The unique aspect of Schwartz's research is that he conducted what is known as "closed loop" brain experiments. In a "closed loop" experiment, the monkey is conscious of the robotic arm and is making an effort to control it. Monkeys in previous experiments did not understand that they were having an effect on the world at all. Duke University performed such prosthetic arm experiments as far back as 2000. In one case they even sent the electrode signals over the internet , allowing the monkey to move an arm 600 miles away at MIT.
"The open loop experiment was really very crude," said Schwartz. "The closed loop introduces us into a whole new field because the animal actually sees the arm and the consequence of what it is doing." For Schwartz's monkey the robotic arm is incorporated into its mental body representation, making it an extra limb.
[ ... Read the full report ... ]
- New Dawn In Brain-machine Interfacing
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to bring paralysed people the ability to use thought power alone to control artificial limbs, and to interact with computers and other electrical devices. John Donoghue and colleagues implanted a tiny...
- The Neuro Sci-fi Of The Near Future
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If Man is 5... If Man is 5 If Man is 5 Then the Devil is 6 Then the Devil is 6 Then the Devil is 6 And if the Devil is 6 Then God is 7 Then God is 7 Then God is 7 This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven ...etc. Monkey gone to...
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From The New York Times:Who's That Strange Monkey in the Mirror? By NICHOLAS WADE The New York Times Published: July 26, 2005 Humans, the great apes and, probably, dolphins share an intellectual skill unusual in the animal world: they recognize...
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Sorry I’m going to miss this one … Speaker: Herbert Terrace, Columbia University Title: "Thought without Language" Time: 4pm, Friday, October 14, 2005 Place: Class of '47 Room, Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut / Storrs In recent years,...