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 is a multidisciplinary field at the interface between neurosciences and
biomedical engineering, which aims at replacing or modulating parts of the nervous system …

Pioneering work with nonhuman primates and recent human studies established
intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) as a method of …

The study of decision making spans such varied fields as neuroscience, psychology,
economics, statistics, political science, and computer science. Despite this diversity of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Following arm amputation the region that represented the missing hand in primary
somatosensory cortex (S1) becomes deprived of its primary input, resulting in changed …

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 …

Decision-making behavior has been studied extensively, but the neurophysiological
mechanisms responsible for this remarkable cognitive ability are just beginning to be …