They blazed a trail with ‘brain-computer interfaces.’ Now they want to help shape the field’s future
Three years after he was paralyzed from the chest down, Ian Burkhart faced a dilemma. He received a phone call from the Ohio State University asking him, as one of the few patients with a spinal cord injury living near Columbus, Ohio, to join a brain-computer interface (BCI) study.
The problem was, no one could answer his most pressing questions.
