Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

SJ Bensmaia, DJ Tyler, S Micera - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023‏ - nature.com
Individuals who have lost the use of their hands because of amputation or spinal cord injury
can use prosthetic hands to restore their independence. A dexterous prosthesis requires the …

Neuroprosthetics: from sensorimotor to cognitive disorders

A Gupta, N Vardalakis, FB Wagner - Communications biology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Neuroprosthetics is a multidisciplinary field at the interface between neurosciences and
biomedical engineering, which aims at replacing or modulating parts of the nervous system …

Proprioceptive and cutaneous sensations in humans elicited by intracortical microstimulation

M Armenta Salas, L Bashford, S Kellis, M Jafari, HC Jo… - Elife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Pioneering work with nonhuman primates and recent human studies established
intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) as a method of …

[HTML][HTML] Brain (re) organisation following amputation: Implications for phantom limb pain

TR Makin, H Flor - Neuroimage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Following arm amputation the region that represented the missing hand in primary
somatosensory cortex (S1) becomes deprived of its primary input, resulting in changed …

The neural basis of decision making

JI Gold, MN Shadlen - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2007‏ - annualreviews.org
The study of decision making spans such varied fields as neuroscience, psychology,
economics, statistics, political science, and computer science. Despite this diversity of …

Brain–machine interfaces: past, present and future

MA Lebedev, MAL Nicolelis - TRENDS in Neurosciences, 2006‏ - cell.com
Since the original demonstration that electrical activity generated by ensembles of cortical
neurons can be employed directly to control a robotic manipulator, research on brain …

Restoring sensorimotor function through intracortical interfaces: progress and looming challenges

SJ Bensmaia, LE Miller - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014‏ - nature.com
The loss of a limb or paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury has devastating
consequences on quality of life. One approach to restoring lost sensory and motor abilities in …

Neural basis of a perceptual decision in the parietal cortex (area LIP) of the rhesus monkey

MN Shadlen, WT Newsome - Journal of neurophysiology, 2001‏ - journals.physiology.org
We recorded the activity of single neurons in the posterior parietal cortex (area LIP) of two
rhesus monkeys while they discriminated the direction of motion in random-dot visual …

Modulating brain activity with invasive brain–computer interface: a narrative review

ZP Zhao, C Nie, CT Jiang, SH Cao, KX Tian, S Yu… - Brain sciences, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Brain-computer interface (BCI) can be used as a real-time bidirectional information gateway
between the brain and machines. In particular, rapid progress in invasive BCI, propelled by …

The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making

HR Heekeren, S Marrett, LG Ungerleider - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2008‏ - nature.com
Perceptual decision making is the act of choosing one option or course of action from a set
of alternatives on the basis of available sensory evidence. Thus, when we make such …