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 …

Signatures of task learning in neural representations

H Gurnani, NAC Gajic - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
While neural plasticity has long been studied as the basis of learning, the growth of large-
scale neural recording techniques provides a unique opportunity to study how learning …

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 …

A unified, scalable framework for neural population decoding

M Azabou, V Arora, V Ganesh, X Mao… - Advances in …, 2024 - 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 …

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 …

Aligning latent representations of neural activity

M Dabagia, KP Kording, EL Dyer - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
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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 …

A multi-demand operating system underlying diverse cognitive tasks

W Cai, J Taghia, V Menon - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The existence of a multiple-demand cortical system with an adaptive, domain-general, role
in cognition has been proposed, but the underlying dynamic mechanisms and their links to …

Drop, swap, and generate: A self-supervised approach for generating neural activity

R Liu, M Azabou, M Dabagia, CH Lin… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Meaningful and simplified representations of neural activity can yield insights into how and
what information is being processed within a neural circuit. However, without labels, finding …

Seeing the forest and the tree: Building representations of both individual and collective dynamics with transformers

R Liu, M Azabou, M Dabagia… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Complex time-varying systems are often studied by abstracting away from the dynamics of
individual components to build a model of the population-level dynamics from the start …