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Single brain implant gives paralyzed man bilingual communication


Tracking syllables of words lets English and Spanish training assist each other.

Bilingual people will often change languages based on different social situations or sometimes do so within a sentence in order to express themselves more clearly. The process of detecting these signals is rather complex, given that neural activity looks like a noisy series of "spikes," or bursts of voltage changes. So, a lot of work here involved training the software portion of the system to recognize when the participant with the implant wanted to say specific words.

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