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From the November 2008 Scientific American Magazine | 19 comments

Jacking into the Brain--Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface? ( Preview )

How far can science advance brain-machine interface technology? Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive?

By Gary Stix   

 

Learning the Language

Fulfilling the fantasy of inputting a calculus text—or even plugging in Traveler’s French before going on vacation—would require far deeper insight into the brain signals that encode language and other neural representations.

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