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Brain–machine interfaces

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience volume 11, page 785 (2010)Cite this article

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The volunteers in this study were patients with epilepsy who had been implanted with electrodes in several areas of the MTL to aid brain surgery aimed at controlling their seizures. The authors recorded the activity of neurons in response to images of famous people and landmarks, and for each patient identified four neurons that each selectively responded to one image — for example, a picture of Marilyn Monroe. Previous studies have led to the proposal that such neurons represent the memory of a specific concept very familiar to the subject (for example, the concept 'Marilyn Monroe').

internal, cognitive processes can override neuronal activation induced by sensory input.

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  1. Cerf, M. et al. On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons. Nature 467, 1104–1108 (2010)

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  1. Leonie Welberg
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Welberg, L. See what you want to see. Nat Rev Neurosci 11, 785 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2958

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