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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2002

Research published in today's issue of Nature gives new meaning to that joke about a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters.

A team from Brown University has discovered that a monkey can move a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it. Electrodes planted in a monkey's brain convert its thoughts into electronic signals, which are then used to achieve movement.

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Report: Monkeys' Thoughts Move Cursor (The Washington Post 3/15)

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Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature