Swiss Study: Humans Can Train Their Brain To Communicate With Machines

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Humans can learn to share their thoughts with machines. In a new study, researchers from the University of Geneva have shown that so-called brain-machine interfaces can read the thoughts of specially trained people better than those of untrained people. This content was published on March 24, 2025 - 17:49 2 minutes Keystone-SDA

• Deutsch de Maschinen können Gedanken von trainierten Menschen besser lesen Original Read more: Maschinen können Gedanken von trainierten Menschen besser lese

+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox

The researchers hope that this will enable a new form of communication for people who can no longer speak after a stroke, for example, as the University of Geneva announced on Monday.

For the study, the researchers attached electrodes to the scalp of 15 volunteers in order to detect and record voltage fluctuations in the brain. Wired up in this way, the volunteers had to imagine the syllables“fo” and“gi”, i.e. only pronounce them internally.

More More Explainer: Why US health funding cuts are rattling Swiss science

This content was published on Mar 6, 2025 The Trump administration has upended funding by the National Institutes of Health. What does it mean for biomedical research in Switzerland?

Read more: Explainer: Why US health funding cuts are rattling Swiss scienc

MENAFN25032025000210011054ID1109352721