Neural Systems Lab

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2025

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians

Elon Musk says a third patient got a Neuralink brain implant. The work is part of a booming field

2024

Rajesh Rao reflects on predictive brains, neural interfaces and the future of human intelligence

Mind over model: Allen School’s Rajesh Rao proposes brain-inspired AI architecture to make complex problems simpler to solve

2023

Seeing is believing: Linxing Preston Jiang and Rajesh Rao earn best paper award at CogSci for developing a new approach to understanding human visual perception

2022

Musk’s company aims to soon test brain implant in people

The Economist: How brain computer interfaces could change humanity

Restoring touch through electrodes implanted in the human brain will require engineering around a sensory lag

Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?

2021

Dear People of 2021: What Can We Learn From Hindsight?

To Be Energy-Efficient, Brains Predict Their Perceptions

Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?

To Find How the Brain Creates Perceptions, Neuroscentists Ponder Psychedelics?

Opinionated Science Episode 13: Connecting the Brain: “Thought Tetris”, Brain Privacy and Neuralink

Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity

Three visions of the future, inspired by neuroscience’s past and present

2020

Three visions of the future, inspired by neuroscience’s past and present

2019

How Computer-Assisted Telepathy Helps Humans Communicate