brain interface

A brain interface is technology that creates a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device.

Also called a brain-computer interface or neural interface.

The technology reads brain signals to control computers, prosthetics, or other devices, and may also send signals back to the brain.

Applications range from helping paralyzed patients move robotic limbs to experimental efforts at enhancing memory or cognition: The brain interface let her type just by thinking the words.