Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform

Qian Ma, Wei Gao, Qiang Xiao, Lingsong Ding, Tianyi Gao, Yajun Zhou, Xinxin Gao, Tao Yan, Che Liu, Ze Gu, Xianghong Kong, Qammer H. Abbasi, Lianlin Li, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Yuanqing Li, Tie Jun Cui
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), invasive or non-invasive, have projected unparalleled vision and promise for assisting patients in need to better their interaction with the surroundings. Inspired by the BCI-based rehabilitation technologies for nerve-system impairments and amputation, we propose an electromagnetic brain-computer-metasurface (EBCM) paradigm, regulated by human's cognition by brain signals directly and non-invasively. We experimentally show that our EBCM platform can translate human's mind from evoked potentials of P300-based electroencephalography to digital coding information in the electromagnetic domain non-invasively, which can be further processed and transported by an information metasurface in automated and wireless fashions. Directly wireless communications of the human minds are performed between two EBCM operators with accurate text transmissions. Moreover, several other proof-of-concept mind-control schemes are presented using the same EBCM platform, exhibiting flexibly-customized capabilities of information processing and synthesis like visual-beam scanning, wave modulations, and pattern encoding.
Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
Report number: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43593-022-00019-x
Cite as: arXiv:2205.00280 [cs.IT]
(or arXiv:2205.00280v1 [cs.IT] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.00280
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Journal reference: eLight 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s43593-022-00019-x
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