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

该奖项将支持参与者前往国际研讨会的差旅费，“思想到言语”第3步：脑瘫成人皮质内通信系统（BrainGate-CP）的科学，工程和临床规划"，将于2018年11月28日在希尔顿芝加哥奥黑尔机场举行。该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，以促进全面了解为此目的创建BCI所面临的挑战。“思想到语言”的BCI将为出生时没有说话能力的人提供机会，并减轻那些在以后的生活中获得这种条件的人的后天语言障碍的负担。有运动和交流障碍的人的智力通常被低估。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.