Brain computer interfaces

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A book in which one page is a door.

How will the field’s relationship to industry change over the next decade? Will a larger neurotechnology sector emerge?

Interactions between academic neuroscience and industry will grow, and the neurotech sector will expand, most survey respondents predict. The current funding upheaval in the United States may accelerate this trend as the field searches for new funding models.

By The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 10 min read
A monkey brain slice.

Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put the future of such advances at risk.

By Cory Miller, J. Anthony Movshon, Doris Tsao
10 November 2025 | 6 min read
Mock-up of the Neuropixels probe inserted into brain tissue.

Tracking single neurons in the human brain reveals new insight into language and other human-specific functions

Better technologies to stably monitor cell populations over long periods of time make it possible to study neural coding and dynamics in the human brain.

By Edward Chang, Jason Chung
28 April 2025 | 7 min read

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