BBC News - Monkeys' brain waves offer paraplegics hope

BBC News - Monkeys' brain waves offer paraplegics hope: The researchers trained the monkeys, Mango and Tangerine, to play a video game using a joystick to move the virtual arm and capture three identical targets. Each target was associated with a different vibration of the joystick.
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In terms of rehabilitation of patients that suffer from severe neurological disorders this is a major step forward”

Prof Miguel Nicolelis Duke University Centre for Neuroengineering

Multiple electrodes were implanted in the brains of the monkeys and connected to the computer screen. The joystick was removed and motor signals from the monkey's brains then controlled the arm.