In his talk, Steven Chase speaks about the ultimate limits of what we can learn and the recent efforts that we and others have taken to tackle this area of research using brain-computer interfaces.

Steven Chase is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a BS in Applied Physics from Caltech, an MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins. In 2016 he received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. For his research he designs brain-computer interfaces and uses them to study learning and motor control.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx