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From the Ted Talk by Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Well, ADHD is just one example. We can use these cognitive brain-machine interfaces for many other cntvoigie fields. It was just a few years ago that my grandfather had a srotke, and he lost complete ability to speak. He could understand everybody, but there was no way to respond, even not writing because he was illiterate. So he passed away in silence. I remember thinking at that time: What if we could have a computer which could speak for him? Now, after years that I am in this filed, I can see that this might be possible. Imagine if we can find brainwave patterns when people think about images or even lrettes, like the letter A generates a different brainwave pattern than the letter B, and so on. Could a computer one day cmocauntmie for people who can't speak? What if a computer can help us understand the tghthuos of a person in a coma? We are not there yet, but pay close attention. We will be there soon.

Open Cloze

Well, ADHD is just one example. We can use these cognitive brain-machine interfaces for many other _________ fields. It was just a few years ago that my grandfather had a ______, and he lost complete ability to speak. He could understand everybody, but there was no way to respond, even not writing because he was illiterate. So he passed away in silence. I remember thinking at that time: What if we could have a computer which could speak for him? Now, after years that I am in this _____, I can see that this might be possible. Imagine if we can find brainwave patterns when people think about images or even _______, like the letter A generates a different brainwave pattern than the letter B, and so on. Could a computer one day ___________ for people who can't speak? What if a computer can help us understand the ________ of a person in a coma? We are not there yet, but pay close attention. We will be there soon.

Solution

  1. field
  2. cognitive
  3. thoughts
  4. communicate
  5. stroke
  6. letters

Original Text

Well, ADHD is just one example. We can use these cognitive brain-machine interfaces for many other cognitive fields. It was just a few years ago that my grandfather had a stroke, and he lost complete ability to speak. He could understand everybody, but there was no way to respond, even not writing because he was illiterate. So he passed away in silence. I remember thinking at that time: What if we could have a computer which could speak for him? Now, after years that I am in this field, I can see that this might be possible. Imagine if we can find brainwave patterns when people think about images or even letters, like the letter A generates a different brainwave pattern than the letter B, and so on. Could a computer one day communicate for people who can't speak? What if a computer can help us understand the thoughts of a person in a coma? We are not there yet, but pay close attention. We will be there soon.

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