This week's
Big Picture Science examines brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Guests include engineer of the tiny Jan Rabaey, at the
Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, who is developing wireless micro-electrode grids that can send signals out of human brains;
Human Connectome researcher Arthur Toga, a UCLA cartographer of human brain function; UCSF neuroscientist
Brad Voytek, who studies attention and memory in ECoG-implanted epilepsy patients; and senior UCSC neurobiologist
Michael Gazzaniga, author of the recent book
Who's In Charge?: Free Will and the Brain. The interviews are excellent, and the show opens up with my 13-year-old son Leo and me playing Mind Flex, an EEG-based game that we got for Christmas.
