• IT DOES SO BY USING ELECTRODES TO DETECT ELECTRIC SIGNALS IN THE BRAIN WHICH ARE
SENT TO A COMPUTER.
• THE COMPUTER THEN TRANSLATES THESE ELECTRIC SIGNALS INTO DATA WHICH IS USED TO
CONTROL A COMPUTER OR A DEVICE LINKED TO A COMPUTER.
MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS
• 1924 ,HANS BERGER, A GERMAN NEUROLOGIST WAS THE FIRST TO RECORD HUMAN BRAIN ACTIVITY BY MEANS OF EEG.
• 1970, RESEARCH ON BCIS BEGAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES (UCLA).
• FOLLOWING YEARS OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION, THE FIRST NEUROPROSTHETIC DEVICES IMPLANTED IN HUMANS
APPEARED IN THE MID-1990S.
• 2004 MATTHEW NAGLE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PERSONS TO USE A BCI TO RESTORE FUNCTIONALITY LOST DUE TO
PARALYSIS.
• 2013 DUKE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS SUCCESSFULLY CONNECTED THE BRAINS OF TWO RATS WITH ELECTRONIC INTERFACES
THAT ALLOWED THEM TO DIRECTLY SHARE INFORMATION, IN THE FIRST-EVER DIRECT BRAIN-TO-BRAIN INTERFACE.
Paraplegic in exoskeleton suit making the opening kick in the
World Cup (2014)
Paralyzed woman able to type 8 words per minute just using her
mind (2017)
BCI
WORKING
Basic block diagram of a BCI system incorporating signal detection, processing and deployment
BASIC MECHANISM
Digital EEG
BCI Types
Partial
Invasive Invasive Non Invasive
• PROVIDE DISABLED PEOPLE WITH COMMUNICATION, ENVIRONMENT CONTROL, AND MOVEMENT RESTORATION.
• PROVIDE ENHANCED CONTROL OF DEVICES SUCH AS WHEELCHAIRS, VEHICLES, OR ASSISTANCE ROBOTS FOR PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITIES.
• MONITOR ATTENTION IN LONG-DISTANCE DRIVERS OR AIRCRAFT PILOTS, SEND OUT ALERT AND WARNING FOR
AIRCRAFT PILOTS.