On a hot summer day 15 years ago in Parma, Italy, a monkey sat in a
special laboratory chair waiting for researchers to return from lunch.
Thin wires had been implanted in the region of its brain involved in
planning and carrying out movements.
Published: January 10, 2006
Every time the monkey grasped and moved an object, some cells in
that brain region would fire, and a monitor would register a sound:
brrrrrip, brrrrrip, brrrrrip.
A graduate student entered the ...
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