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Jacques Vidal Coins the Term "Brain-Computer Interface"

1973
Vidal's graphic outline of the brain-computer inteface and an interelectrode correlation map

Vidal's graphic outline of the brain-computer inteface and an interelectrode correlation map as shown on a graphic terminal display, from p. 175 of his paper.

In 1973 computer scientist Jacques J. Vidal of UCLA coined the term brain-computer interface (BCI) in his paper "Toward Direct Brain-Computer Communication," Annual Review of Biophysics and Bioengineering 2: 157–80. doi:10.1146/annurev.bb.02.060173.001105. PMID 4583653.

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