# Invasive BCI
**Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system
**Domain:** Brain-Computer Interfaces / Neurotechnology
**Doc Type:** Concept Node
**Maturity:** Clinical Research and Deployment
**Related:** [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Electrocorticography]], [[Neural Signal Acquisition]], [[Closed-Loop BCI]]
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## Definition
An **invasive brain-computer interface** records from or stimulates neural tissue using surgically implanted electrodes or devices. Intracortical arrays and cortical-surface ECoG systems can achieve higher signal specificity than non-invasive methods but introduce surgical, biocompatibility, longevity, security, and informed-consent constraints.
## Continuity relevance
Invasive interfaces can provide high-bandwidth longitudinal data, but their measurements remain partial samples of a changing biological system. Interface fidelity must not be equated automatically with identity or consciousness continuity.
## Neurotech cluster route
**Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]
## Relationships
[[wiki/Invasive BCI|Invasive BCI]] is related to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] through [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] and [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]].
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## Related Work in the Corpus
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- In [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], **Movement VII — Interface Deployment: The Neurointerface Stack from Wearable to Implanted** provides the narrative context for **Invasive BCI**: Wiki route: brain-computer interfaces · non-invasive BCI · invasive BCI · Neuralink · Synchron · Precision Neuroscience · Blackrock Neurotech · Paradromics · BCI HID.
- In [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], ****3\. Standardization of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)**** provides the narrative context for **Invasive BCI**: Interface and standards route: neural interfaces · neural signal acquisition · non-invasive BCI · invasive BCI · BCI metadata · multimodal neural data · multimodal fusion · ISO/IEC 8663:2025 · ISO/IEC TS 27571:2026 · IEEE P2731 ·…
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