So far, three monkeys have received the implant. Linked to a personal computer, the cursor control device “would work for anything you can do or you can imagine doing by pointing and clicking.

and work to solve, a problem. Whereas monkeys can think on their feet, humans often become set in their ways and cling to inefficient strategies for problem solving, according to new research.

New research shows that spider monkeys use collective computation to ... Questions for future work include studying how individuals optimally combine the knowledge of group mates, depending ...

Cantlon and Brannon set up an experiment in which macaque monkeys were placed in front of a computer touch screen ... However, our work has shown that both humans and monkeys can mentally ...

But previous work involved just a single operator ... which could then be combined by a computer. The monkeys were stationed in separate rooms, each with a digital display on which the monkey ...

It will follow “Telepathy”, a product that is being used to allow people to control a computer with only their brain. The Blindsight system is already working in monkeys, Mr Musk has now claimed.

But Strick says the areas work together with the primary motor cortex to help a monkey vocalize. STRICK: In a sense, it has multiple separate computers running at the same time to deal with that ...