At The Mountain

Illustrated by: Hutch Viscardi

“At the Mountain” interprets Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). BCIs connect internal brain activity to external technology [1], with applications ranging from brain-controlled wheelchairs [2] to brain-controlled prosthetic limbs [3].

References

[1] Wolpaw, J. R., Birbaumer, N., McFarland, D. J., Pfurtscheller, G., & Vaughan, T. M. (2002). Brain–computer interfaces for communication and control. Clinical neurophysiology, 113(6), 767-791.

[2] Fernández-Rodríguez, Á., Velasco-Álvarez, F., & Ron-Angevin, R. (2016). Review of real brain-controlled wheelchairs. Journal of neural engineering, 13(6), 061001.

[3] Bright, D., Nair, A., Salvekar, D., & Bhisikar, S. (2016, June). EEG-based brain controlled prosthetic arm. In 2016 Conference on Advances in Signal Processing (CASP) (pp. 479-483). IEEE.