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'60 Minutes': Decoding language of the brain
Andrew Schwartz, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh, has implanted a grid of electrodes inside a monkey's brain in order to listen to the different brain cells (or neurons) in an attempt to decode the language of the brain.
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'60 Minutes': Development of wireless system
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Ep. 1109: In the future we'll all be cats
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