Prefrontal cortex brain waves predict body movement
March 21, 2005 | Source: KurzweilAI
California Institute of Technology scientists have confirmed that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vPF) area of the brain is involved in the planning stages of movement.
They were able to predict where a target the patient was looking at was located, and also where the patient was going to move his hand. The work currently appears in the online version of Nature Neuroscience.
The work has implications for the development of a neural prosthesis, a brain-machine interface that will give paralyzed people the ability to move and communicate simply by thinking.