Motor cortex

Image caption: A participant uses a neuroprosthesis for inner speech. The text above is the sentence given as a cue, and the text below is what is decoded in real time when she imagines herself saying the sentence. Credit: Emory BrainGate Team

Brain-computer interface can decode inner speech in real time

Severely paralyzed people will be able to "speak to themselves" and the computer will translate it into the words they wanted to say but couldn't.