A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say. The new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through a brain-computer interface.| EurekAlert!
Jonathan Viventi, assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering, works on improving devices implanted in the brain to address problems such as epilepsy. “My group develops new electrode arrays for interfacing with the brain at higher resolution,” he says, “while having broad coverage and high-density sampling,” giving scientists enormous amounts of information readable from brain signals.| Duke Mag