In a hospital in southeastern Spain, a young man who lost his sight to traumatic injury became the focal point of a quiet but consequential experiment: whether artificial intelligence could learn to speak the brain's own language. Researchers from three institutions trained a deep-learning model not merely to stimulate the visual cortex, but to listen to it first — reading the brain's resting state before deciding how to act. The findings, published in Neuron, suggest that the future of neural prosthetics lies not in delivering more signal, but in delivering the right signal at the right momen
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One blind participant with traumatic brain injury participated in the trial, representing potential restoration of vision for people with acquired blindness.
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