• DocumentCode
    3086832
  • Title

    How do we make future neurally integrated prosthetic devices speak the same language as the nervous system

  • Author

    Cummings, Ralph Etienne

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-3 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    It is postulated that future brain-machine interfaces (BMI) will not only be used to infer the host\´s intentions from brain activities or to provide the host with extrinsic information but may provide extensions, enhancements and replacement of parts of the brain itself. Applications of BMI are clearly in the realm of science fiction at this point and time, however, progress is being made to model and mimick parts of the brain so that we are getting closer to making these dreams a reality.We assert that such BMI devices will not be truly realized until the electronics "speak the same language" as the biological brain. That is, the signaling interface between the electronic and biological systems must match and the computation performed by the electronic device must also be implemented similarly to biological computation.
  • Keywords
    brain-computer interfaces; neurophysiology; prosthetics; BMI; biological computation; biological systems; brain-machine interfaces; electronic device; nervous system; neurally integrated prosthetic devices; signaling interface; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Integrated circuit modeling; Neuromorphics; Neurons; Prosthetics; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Technologies Beyond 2020 (TTM), 2011 IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0415-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0416-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TTM.2011.6005171
  • Filename
    6005171