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

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

eLight Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2022)

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2024-09-28

- Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform
- Affiliations：
  
  Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
  State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  Center of Intelligent Metamaterials Pazhou Laboratory, Guangzhou 510330, China
  Research Center for Brain-Computer Interface, Pazhou Lab, Guangzhou 510330, China
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
  State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Author bio：
  
  *chengwei.qiu@nus.edu.sg
  auyqli@scut.edu.cn
  tjcui@seu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1186/s43593-022-00019-x
  CLC：
- Published：2022-12，
  
  Published Online：11 June 2022，
  
  Received：09 May 2022，
  
  Revised：13 May 2022，
  
  Accepted：19 May 2022
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Qian Ma, Wei Gao, Qiang Xiao, et al. Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1).
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Qian Ma, Wei Gao, Qiang Xiao, et al. Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1). DOI： 10.1186/s43593-022-00019-x.

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Abstract

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 flexiblycustomized capabilities of information processing and synthesis like visual-beam scanning

wave modulations

and pattern encoding.

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