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From the Ted Talk by Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is a complete liberation of the brain from the physical constraints of the body and the mootr in a perceptual task. The animal is controlling the avatar to touch the targets. And he's sensing the texture by rcenveiig an electrical message directly in the biran. And the brain is deciding what is the texture associated with the reward. The legends that you see in the movie don't appear for the monkey. And by the way, they don't read English anyway, so they are here just for you to know that the crcoret target is shifting pitioosn. And yet, they can find them by tactile discrimination, and they can press it and select it.
Open Cloze
This is a complete liberation of the brain from the physical constraints of the body and the _____ in a perceptual task. The animal is controlling the avatar to touch the targets. And he's sensing the texture by _________ an electrical message directly in the _____. And the brain is deciding what is the texture associated with the reward. The legends that you see in the movie don't appear for the monkey. And by the way, they don't read English anyway, so they are here just for you to know that the _______ target is shifting ________. And yet, they can find them by tactile discrimination, and they can press it and select it.
Solution
- brain
- motor
- receiving
- position
- correct
Original Text
This is a complete liberation of the brain from the physical constraints of the body and the motor in a perceptual task. The animal is controlling the avatar to touch the targets. And he's sensing the texture by receiving an electrical message directly in the brain. And the brain is deciding what is the texture associated with the reward. The legends that you see in the movie don't appear for the monkey. And by the way, they don't read English anyway, so they are here just for you to know that the correct target is shifting position. And yet, they can find them by tactile discrimination, and they can press it and select it.
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Important Words
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- tactile
- target
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- texture
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