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
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