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The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.

In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.

Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”

The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.

They could also “turn off” their fear.

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.

“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.

Hang on to something — or ride the wave — because three big tech trends are about to converge.

The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.

Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

Giving speech to the speechless.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs’ effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.

Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.

“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche’s titular character asks in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”

“Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain,” writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.

Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.

It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.

Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.

A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

The most mental game in existence no longer requires fingers.

Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.

Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.

Researchers have been developing a promising model that can more closely mimic the human body – organ-on-a-chip.

The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.

Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.