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 …

A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis

FR Willett, EM Kunz, C Fan, DT Avansino, GH Wilson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Speech brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to restore rapid communication
to people with paralysis by decoding neural activity evoked by attempted speech into text, or …

How our understanding of memory replay evolves

ZS Chen, MA Wilson - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Memory reactivations and replay, widely reported in the hippocampus and cortex across
species, have been implicated in memory consolidation, planning, and spatial and skill …

High-performance brain-to-text communication via handwriting

FR Willett, DT Avansino, LR Hochberg, JM Henderson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore communication to people who have lost the
ability to move or speak. So far, a major focus of BCI research has been on restoring gross …

Long-term stability of cortical population dynamics underlying consistent behavior

JA Gallego, MG Perich, RH Chowdhury, SA Solla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Animals readily execute learned behaviors in a consistent manner over long periods of time,
and yet no equally stable neural correlate has been demonstrated. How does the cortex …

Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

M Safaie, JC Chang, J Park, LE Miller, JT Dudman… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Animals of the same species exhibit similar behaviours that are advantageously adapted to
their body and environment. These behaviours are shaped at the species level by selection …

A unified, scalable framework for neural population decoding

M Azabou, V Arora, V Ganesh, X Mao… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Our ability to use deep learning approaches to decipher neural activity would likely benefit
from greater scale, in terms of both the model size and the datasets. However, the …

Stabilization of a brain–computer interface via the alignment of low-dimensional spaces of neural activity

AD Degenhart, WE Bishop, ER Oby… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
The instability of neural recordings can render clinical brain–computer interfaces (BCIs)
uncontrollable. Here, we show that the alignment of low-dimensional neural manifolds (low …

Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces with slice tensor component analysis

A Pellegrino, H Stein, NA Cayco-Gajic - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Recent work has argued that large-scale neural recordings are often well described by
patterns of coactivation across neurons. Yet the view that neural variability is constrained to …

Brain microvasculature has a common topology with local differences in geometry that match metabolic load

X Ji, T Ferreira, B Friedman, R Liu, H Liechty, E Bas… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The microvasculature underlies the supply networks that support neuronal activity within
heterogeneous brain regions. What are common versus heterogeneous aspects of the …