How neuroscientists built a monkey brainet

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Each month we illustrate a hot lab study. This issue: how Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at Duke University, researched brain-computer interfaces -- controlling devices using brain signals sent via implanted electrodes -- to understand co-operative thinking.

Illustrations by Guy Shield.

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