Experiment with Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) in neuroscience laboratory 照片檔

Lausanne, Switzerland - May 27, 2016: A neuroscientist is fixing the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) hood worn by a test person at a lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The BCI hood is able to translate brain activity into signals that control a computer and aims to allow people with limited mobility to increase their independence or to enable completely paralyzed patients to communicate with their environment. At this specific lab session, the test person, who is paraplegic and sitting in a wheelchair, is training to pilot an avatar through a computer game just with his thoughts. The game is one of the disciplines at "Cybathlon", a championship for racing pilots with disabilities which will take place in October 2016 in Kloten, Switzerland. The team of EPFL neuroscientists are positive about winning "Cybathlon's" BCI race: at the end of the training session, they set a new personal high-score.