Neural interfacing forging the human-machine connection /

• Main Author: Coates, Thomas D.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2008.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering, #22.
• Subjects: Neuroergonomics.; Brain-computer interfaces.; Nervous system > Mathematical models.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to resource

In the past 50 years there has been an explosion of interest in the development of technologies whose end goal is to connect the human brain and/or nervous system directly to computers. Once the subject of science fiction, the technologies necessary to accomplish this goal are rapidly becoming reali...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The road ahead
• The brain and nervous system, in a nutshell
• Acquiring and using neural data
• Neural interfaces : past and present
• Invasive interfaces
• Non-invasive neural interfaces
• Technical challenges to implantable devices
• Power and communication
• Current neuroprosthesis research
• Vision prostheses
• Cochlear (hearing) implants
• Cognitive-based neural prosthetics
• Cardiac pacemakers
• Conclusion
• Neural interfacing ethics.