Device Decodes ‘Internal Speech’ in the Brain

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May 16, 2024, 3:30 PM

• •Scientists have developed brain implants that can decode internal speech — identifying words that two people spoke in their minds without moving their lips or making a sound.
• •The technology is at an early stage — it was shown to work with only a handful of words, and not phrases or sentences — but it could have clinical applications in future.
• •The latest study — published in Nature Human Behaviour on 13 May — is the first to decode words spoken entirely internally, by recording signals from individual neurons in the brain in real time.

Scientists have developed brain implants that can decode internal speech - identifying words that two people spoke in their minds without moving their lips or making a sound. Although the technology is at an early stage - it was shown to work with only a handful of words, and not phrases or sentences - it could have clinical applications in future.

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