The science and engineering behind sensitized brain-controlled bionic hands

C Pandarinath, SJ Bensmaia - Physiological Reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Advances in our understanding of brain function, along with the development of neural
interfaces that allow for the monitoring and activation of neurons, have paved the way for …

The encoding of touch by somatotopically aligned dorsal column subdivisions

J Turecek, BP Lehnert, DD Ginty - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The somatosensory system decodes a range of tactile stimuli to generate a coherent sense
of touch. Discriminative touch of the body depends on signals conveyed from peripheral …

Modulation of tactile feedback for the execution of dexterous movement

JM Conner, A Bohannon, M Igarashi, J Taniguchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Although dexterity relies on the constant transmission of sensory information, unchecked
feedback can be disruptive. Yet how somatosensory feedback from the hands is regulated …

Proprioceptive representations of the hand in somatosensory cortex

OJ Lutz, SJ Bensmaia - Current Opinion in Physiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Hand proprioception is critical for executing dexterous movements but has received little
experimental attention compared to proximal limb proprioception. Here, we review what is …

Peripersonal encoding of forelimb proprioception in the mouse somatosensory cortex

I Alonso, I Scheer, M Palacio-Manzano… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Conscious perception of limb movements depends on proprioceptive neural responses in
the somatosensory cortex. In contrast to tactile sensations, proprioceptive cortical coding is …

Flexible intentions: An active inference theory

M Priorelli, IP Stoianov - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We present a normative computational theory of how the brain may support visually-guided
goal-directed actions in dynamically changing environments. It extends the Active Inference …

Task-driven hierarchical deep neural network models of the proprioceptive pathway

KJ Sandbrink, P Mamidanna, C Michaelis, MW Mathis… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Biological motor control is versatile and efficient. Muscles are flexible and undergo
continuous changes requiring distributed adaptive control mechanisms. How proprioception …

Precise and stable edge orientation signaling by human first-order tactile neurons

V Sukumar, RS Johansson, JA Pruszynski - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abstract Fast-adapting type 1 (FA-1) and slow-adapting type 1 (SA-1) first-order neurons in
the human tactile system have distal axons that branch in the skin and form many …

Development of an assessment method for freely moving nonhuman primates' eating behavior using manual and deep learning analysis

LJ Ha, M Kim, HG Yeo, I Baek, K Kim, M Lee, Y Lee… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Purpose Although eating is imperative for survival, few comprehensive methods have been
developed to assess freely moving nonhuman primates' eating behavior. In the current …

Modeling proprioception with task-driven neural network models

H Scherberger - Neuron, 2024 - Elsevier
In a recent issue of Cell, Vargas and colleagues 1 demonstrate that task-driven neural
network models are superior at predicting proprioceptive activity in the primate cuneate …