Going beyond primary motor cortex to improve brain–computer interfaces

JA Gallego, TR Makin, SD McDougle - Trends in neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) for movement restoration typically decode the user's intent
from neural activity in their primary motor cortex (M1) and use this information to enable …

Neuromorphic hardware for somatosensory neuroprostheses

E Donati, G Valle - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
In individuals with sensory-motor impairments, missing limb functions can be restored using
neuroprosthetic devices that directly interface with the nervous system. However, restoring …

Microfluidic‐Assembled Covalent Organic Frameworks@Ti3C2Tx MXene Vertical Fibers for High‐Performance Electrochemical Supercapacitors

X Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Man, W Lu, W Chen, J Xu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The delicate design of innovative and sophisticated fibers with vertical porous skeleton and
eminent electrochemical activity to generate directional ionic pathways and good faradic …

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 …

Neural latents benchmark'21: evaluating latent variable models of neural population activity

F Pei, J Ye, D Zoltowski, A Wu, RH Chowdhury… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Advances in neural recording present increasing opportunities to study neural activity in
unprecedented detail. Latent variable models (LVMs) are promising tools for analyzing this …

Neural data transformer 2: multi-context pretraining for neural spiking activity

J Ye, J Collinger, L Wehbe… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The neural population spiking activity recorded by intracortical brain-computer interfaces
(iBCIs) contain rich structure. Current models of such spiking activity are largely prepared for …

Microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex evokes task-dependent, spatially patterned responses in motor cortex

ND Shelchkova, JE Downey, CM Greenspon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The primary motor (M1) and somatosensory (S1) cortices play critical roles in motor control
but the signaling between these structures is poorly understood. To fill this gap, we recorded …

Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces through alignment of latent dynamics

BM Karpowicz, YH Ali, LN Wimalasena, AR Sedler… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) restore motor function to people with paralysis
by translating brain activity into control signals for external devices. In current iBCIs …

[HTML][HTML] S1 represents multisensory contexts and somatotopic locations within and outside the bounds of the cortical homunculus

IA Rosenthal, L Bashford, S Kellis, K Pejsa, B Lee… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Recent literature suggests that tactile events are represented in the primary somatosensory
cortex (S1) beyond its long-established topography; in addition, the extent to which S1 is …

[HTML][HTML] Biomimetic multi-channel microstimulation of somatosensory cortex conveys high resolution force feedback for bionic hands

CM Greenspon, G Valle, TG Hobbs, C Verbaarschot… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Manual interactions with objects are supported by tactile signals from the hand. This tactile
feedback can be restored in brain-controlled bionic hands via intracortical microstimulation …