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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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Brains and Machines - How Did You Become Interested?

In the late 90s, John Shaping and I decided to create a new approach to try to understand how large populations of brain cells generate behavior. We first used rats to demonstrate that we could read the signals coming from about 15 neurons in a behaving rat. And soon after that we moved to monkeys and since the beginning of this studies it is now 23 years since the initial studies.

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