LondonHair-thin probes now record hundreds of human neurons at once.
Until now, human tools offered surface averages or the Utah array’s 96 recording channels.
Neuropixels 1.0 packs 960 recording sites on one shank and reads 384 at once through two wires.
“We’re just starting to get to the level of microphones on individual people,” said Pierre Bourdillon, a Paris neurosurgeon.
Mihaly Kollo’s team at the Francis Crick Institute is testing how the brain represents transitions between spoken words.
How each outlet framed it
- Nature
- recounts the Neuropixels probe placed in a live hydrocephalus shunt operation to record hundreds of neurons during word-audio tasks
Sources: Nature