Against cortical reorganisation

TR Makin, JW Krakauer - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

[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 …

Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation

P Kieliba, D Clode, RO Maimon-Mor, TR Makin - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Humans have long been fascinated by the opportunities afforded through augmentation.
This vision not only depends on technological innovations but also critically relies on our …

Representational models: A common framework for understanding encoding, pattern-component, and representational-similarity analysis

J Diedrichsen, N Kriegeskorte - PLoS computational biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Representational models specify how activity patterns in populations of neurons (or, more
generally, in multivariate brain-activity measurements) relate to sensory stimuli, motor …

Hyperalignment: Modeling shared information encoded in idiosyncratic cortical topographies

JV Haxby, JS Guntupalli, SA Nastase, M Feilong - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Information that is shared across brains is encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale functional
topographies. Hyperalignment captures shared information by projecting pattern vectors for …

Peeling the onion of brain representations

N Kriegeskorte, J Diedrichsen - Annual review of neuroscience, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The brain's function is to enable adaptive behavior in the world. To this end, the brain
processes information about the world. The concept of representation links the information …

Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands

M Santello, M Bianchi, M Gabiccini, E Ricciardi… - Physics of life …, 2016 - Elsevier
The term 'synergy'–from the Greek synergia–means 'working together'. The concept of
multiple elements working together towards a common goal has been extensively used in …

Neural organization of hierarchical motor sequence representations in the human neocortex

A Yokoi, J Diedrichsen - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Although it is widely accepted that the brain represents movement sequences hierarchically,
the neural implementation of this organization is still poorly understood. To address this …

Individual finger movement decoding using a novel ultra-high-density electroencephalography-based brain-computer interface system

HS Lee, L Schreiner, SH Jo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology enables users to operate external devices
without physical movement. Electroencephalography (EEG) based BCI systems are being …

Beyond body maps: Information content of specific body parts is distributed across the somatosensory homunculus

D Muret, V Root, P Kieliba, D Clode, TR Makin - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The homunculus in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is famous for its body part selectivity,
but this dominant feature may eclipse other representational features, eg, information …