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TL;DR: In a 2026 study, 9 people with spinal cord injuries wore a brain-wave cap and imagined moving their left or right foot. A new AI model named the imagined foot correctly 85% of the time, vs 75% for the best older model, but it was tested on recorded data…
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TL;DR: In a 2026 study, 12 healthy volunteers wore a brain-wave cap and silently imagined singing a song, moving a hand or their feet, or doing both at once. A computer told all 8 mental tasks apart about half the time, far better than the 1-in-8 expected by g…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that stroke survivors doing motor imagery showed changing brain-heart coupling across rehabilitation sessions, especially between cardiac sympathetic activity and electroencephalography (EEG) beta-band network clustering…
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