"Thought to Speech" Step 3: Science, Engineering and Clinical Planning of an Intracortical Communication System for Adults with Cerebral Palsy (BrainGate-CP)

该奖项将资助参与者参加2018年11月28日在芝加哥希尔顿酒店举行的国际研讨会的旅费，该研讨会名为“思维到演讲”，名为“第三步：脑瘫成人皮质内通信系统的科学、工程和临床规划(BrainGate-CP)”。这次峰会将汇集不仅在脑机接口(BCI)和脑瘫方面，而且在神经科学、语言发展和相关领域具有专业知识的人们，以促进对为此目的创建BCI所涉及的挑战的全面了解。脑机接口将为先天无说话能力的人提供一个机会，并减轻后天获得这种疾病的人的后天言语障碍的负担。有运动和沟通障碍的人的智力通常被低估。思想到演讲或快速文本的BCI将绕过这种错误的假设。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support participant travel costs to the international workshop, "Thought to Speech" Step 3: Science, Engineering and Clinical Planning of an Intracortical Communication System for Adults with Cerebral Palsy (BrainGate-CP)", being held at the Hilton Chicago O`Hare Airport on November 28, 2018. The summit will bring together people with expertise not only in brain-computer interfaces (BCI's) and cerebral palsy, but also in neuroscience, language development and related fields to promote a comprehensive understanding of the challenges involved in creating BCI's for this purpose. A "thought-to-speech" BCI would provide an opportunity for people born without the ability to speak as well as relieve the burden of acquired speech impairments from those who acquire such a condition later in life. The intelligence of people with motor and communication impairments is routinely underestimated. A thought-to-speech or rapid-text BCI would circumvent this fallacious assumption.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.