Hippocampal BMI: object location control task (VIDEO)
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Normally, hippocampal brain activity is like a GPS that reflects one's current location. But, using a new brain-machine interface + virtual reality system, a rat can control its hippocampal activity to reflect remote locations ('decoded locations') and use this to move an object to where it wants the object to go. These experiments could reveal how our hippocampus allows us to recall memories of places we have visited before and how we can imagine being in different places. This work could also lead to new hippocampal-based neuroprosthetic devices.
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Lai et al. DOI: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5206
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