Researchers are finding ways for artificial intelligent - started with laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that could transmit a sense of touch to the brain that bypasses regular routes. The team trained rhesus macaques to focus their gaze in different directions, depending on which finger was being prodded. The team recorded what activity occurred in the brain and where using microelectrodes placed in the macaques’ primary somatosensory cortex. They then stimulated the brain using the same patterns of activity and found the monkeys reacted as if they had been touched, fixing their gaze in the direction they had been taught.
Journal reference: PNAS
Citation: Y. C. Pei, S. S. Hsiao, and S. J. Bensmaia, 'The tactile integration of local motion cues is analogous to its visual counterpart', PNAS 2008 105 (23) 8130-8135; published ahead of print June 4, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800028105
Gregg A. Tabot, John F. Dammann, Joshua A. Berg, Francesco V. Tenore, Jessica L. Boback, R. Jacob Vogelstein, and Sliman J. Bensmaia , 'Restoring the sense of touch with a prosthetic hand through a brain interface', PNAS October 14, 2013, doi:10.1073/pnas.1221113110
Citation: Y. C. Pei, S. S. Hsiao, and S. J. Bensmaia, 'The tactile integration of local motion cues is analogous to its visual counterpart', PNAS 2008 105 (23) 8130-8135; published ahead of print June 4, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800028105
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