This allowed them to correlate the facial characteristics of each drawing with the firing patterns of the cells.

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The EPOC detects and processes real time brain activity patterns (small voltage changes in the brain caused by the firing of neurons) using a device that measures electric activity in the brain.

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Listening to 100 neurons firing is like listening to static, but a computer can pick up different patterns in the nerve impulses as a person thinks about moving in different ways.

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