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<p>Modern neuroprostheses can now restore communication in patients who have lost the ability to speak or move. However, implanting these invasive devices comes with risks inherent to neurosurgery. Here we introduce a noninvasive method to decode the production of sentences from brain activity and demonstrate its efficacy in a cohort of 35 healthy volunteers. For this, we present Brain2Qwerty, a new deep learning architecture trained to decode sentences from either electro- or magnetoencephalography, while participants typed briefly memorized sentences on a QWERTY keyboard. With magnetoencephalography, Brain2Qwerty reaches, on average, a character error rate of 29% and substantially outperforms electroencephalography (character error rate: 65%). For the best participants, the model achieves a character error rate of 18%, and can perfectly decode a variety of sentences outside of the training set. Overall, these results narrow the gap between invasive and noninvasive methods and thus open the path for developing safe brain–computer interfaces for noncommunicating patients.</p>

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Noninvasive decoding of typed sentences from human brain activity

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    2026年6月29日

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  • Jarod Lévy,
  • Mingfang Zhang,
  • Svetlana Pinet,
  • Jérémy Rapin,
  • Hubert Banville,
  • Stéphane d’Ascoli,
  • Jean-Rémi King

摘要

Modern neuroprostheses can now restore communication in patients who have lost the ability to speak or move. However, implanting these invasive devices comes with risks inherent to neurosurgery. Here we introduce a noninvasive method to decode the production of sentences from brain activity and demonstrate its efficacy in a cohort of 35 healthy volunteers. For this, we present Brain2Qwerty, a new deep learning architecture trained to decode sentences from either electro- or magnetoencephalography, while participants typed briefly memorized sentences on a QWERTY keyboard. With magnetoencephalography, Brain2Qwerty reaches, on average, a character error rate of 29% and substantially outperforms electroencephalography (character error rate: 65%). For the best participants, the model achieves a character error rate of 18%, and can perfectly decode a variety of sentences outside of the training set. Overall, these results narrow the gap between invasive and noninvasive methods and thus open the path for developing safe brain–computer interfaces for noncommunicating patients.