Monkeys 'move and feel' virtual objects using only their brains

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 13:30 in Psychology & Sociology

In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two trained monkeys learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects.

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