Beyond boundaries
Subtitle: the new neuroscience of connecting brains with machines--and how it will change our lives
By: Miguel Nicolelis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co.; Times Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780805090529
Subjects: Neurosciences; Methods; Psychomotor Performance; Thinking; Thought and thinking; Brain; Machinery; Neural Networks (Computer); Man-Machine Systems; Biomedical Engineering; Physiology; Brain-computer interfaces
Description: Draws on ground-breaking brain research to assess the potential of thought-controlled machines, which may enable significant technological advances in areas ranging from health care and manufacturing to global communication and space exploration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is thinking?; title: Brainstorm chasers; title: The simulated body; title: Listening to the cerebral symphony; title: How rats escape from cats; title: Freeing aurora's brain; title: Self control; title: A mind's voyage around the real world; title: The man whose body was a plane; title: Shaping and sharing minds; title: The monster hidden in the brain; title: Computing with a relativistic brain; title: Back to the stars.