While it has long been known that humans and other primates consciously control their brain activity in order to produce and regulate movement, recent studies of ADHD patients and others revealed that ...

New US research has shown that monkeys can learn to move things using their mind alone - although an Australian expert in the area is not overly impressed. Dawn M. Taylor from the Arizona State ...

This is the first example of "direct" neural control in these animals, said Robert Schafer, a neuroscience postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lead author on the study. The ...