U.S. Army soldiers may in the future be able to communicate silently with their colleagues during operations, according to new research on decrypting signals from the brain.
The results, funded by the U.S. Army Research Office over the next five years, have succeeded in separating brain signals that affect behavior from other signals that do not.
Using an algorithm, the team was able to identify brain signals that direct movement, or behavior-related signals, and then remove those signals from other brain signals – non-behavior-related signals.
Hamid Krim, program manager at the Army Research Office, said: "We're here not only measuring the signals, we can explain them.
Researchers want the technology to reach a point where it can deliver direct results to the brain in order to quickly change soldiers' actions in time-sensitive scenarios.
This can include signs of stress and fatigue released by the brain before a person realizes that they are tired.
Researchers can allow the brain to communicate with computers and send signals to other soldiers, karim said: You can have two people talking to each other without whispering a word.
He added: The first person talks with his computer, which can be in his pocket, it can be a mobile phone or anything else, and then this computer talks with your team-mate's computer, and then the computer talks with the second person.
In the experiments, researchers at American and British universities monitored the actions of a monkey trying to reach the ball in order to separate the brain's kinetic signals from other activities, and now looks forward to identifying other signs outside of motion.
Karim said: Reading anything you want does not mean that you understand it, and the next step is to be able to understand it, and then divide it into words so that you can synthesize them in a sense, and this method is similar to how you learn vocabulary and alphabet in order to be able to compose.
The research is primarily aimed at having the computer in a dual-directional mode of communication with the brain.
The development of the brain and computer interface is a long-term development in the technology industry, and Neuralink has recently introduced the brain and computer interface, which it hopes will allow for the coexistence of humans and artificial intelligence.
Karim explained that the brain and computer interface that can be used in combat scenarios is still out of reach.
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