Artificial vision: Berna Gómez spent six months working with researchers to test an experimental visual prosthesis that used an electrode array implanted into her brain’s visual cortex. Gómez had been ...

SALT LAKE CITY, June 29, 2009 – Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny ...

One of the senses of the human body that most of us take for granted is vision. Researchers have been working for years to find methods to improve and enable vision in those with blindness or some ...

External devices that can stimulate and record from the cells of the nervous system date back to Galvani's experiments on the animation of frog muscle. These early neural interfaces—like some still in ...

Through the looking glass: A Spanish woman lost her vision due to a rapidly progressing condition affecting her optic nerves. With the help of researchers and a small electrode implanted in her visual ...