handwriting animation (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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As the participant imagined writing a letter or symbol, sensors implanted in his brain picked up on patterns of electrical activity, which an algorithm interpreted to trace the path of his imaginary pen.

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F. Willett et al./Nature 2021/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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