While only a nascent field, the director of the
prestigious US National Science Foundation, Rita
Colwell, stated in 2003 that "the interface between
nano, bio, info and cognotechnology is where the
exciting discoveries are occurring."[1]
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According to Yonas, nanotechnology makes it feasible
to use brain implants to moderate behavior or brain
functioning, allowing brains with disorders or brains
that have been damaged to function normally.[2]

Another developing field of cognotechnology focuses on
remote sensing brain function. Sensed brain function
will include the intention to commit deception, and
according to Yonas, is likely to be used for more
efficient identifying of potential terrorists at, for
example, airports.

Some fields of cognotechnology have the potential to
be used in possibly controversial ways, such as
modifying the behavior of criminals or pacifying enemy
combatants.

Yonas gave an address on cognotechnology and these
areas currently being researched at a 2001 daylong
symposium sponsored by the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest
general science organization and the publisher of the
prestigious academic journal Science.

REFRENCE to the above text

www.bci-info.org...

engineering.purdue.edu...

biological implants in general and neural prosthetic
devices in particular

Neuroprosthetics

en.wikipedia.org...