Engineering the Brain with Dr. Caleb Kemere

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Engineering the Brain with Dr. Caleb Kemere

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Dec 12, 2016

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On this episode of Brain Matters, Anthony and Caleb Kemere (Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University) talk about Caleb's path to studying real time neural engineering.

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Dec 12, 2016

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