Lab Research: Drexel Students Create Neural Interface

There’s been a heavy spate of interest at the university level lately to create modified interfaces for controlling videogames; the most exciting of these involves neural interfaces, or brain-computer interfaces. Such research is seen leading toward providing benefit to victims of paralysis and other disabilities.

Students at Drexel University’s Replay Laboratory have experimented with hooking up a neuro-imaging device that fits on the forehead with a videogame. The result is a lab creation called Lazy Brains. Stephanie Abrams with the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia filed a report:

Professors at Drexel think it could be a tool to help students with ADHD focus. They also say since this device will eventually detect more brain activity, it may one day give the severely disabled who can’t talk a way to communicate directly from their brain to the computer.

Grad students who helped create the game and are listed in her report include: Hasan Ayaz, Jordan Santell, and Aaron Bohenick. More information on the Replay research lab at Drexel is available at their website.