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#87: The Future of the Brain - Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Mirror Neurons and the Way Brain Machine Interfaces Work?

There is an interesting connection, a very intimate connection between mirror neurons and the way brain machine interfaces operate. And we are just starting to reveal that. It seems to, from nothing, some cells convert themselves to represent movements produced by an external member of the species or the same species or another animal. But more interesting, we observe that as animals and humans become proficient in using brain machine interfaces, the number of these mirror neurons seem to increase.

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