Biological development of reading circuits

BA Wandell, JD Yeatman - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Human neuroimaging is expanding our understanding of the biological processes that are
essential for healthy brain function. Methods such as diffusion weighted imaging provide …

Perceptual confidence neglects decision-incongruent evidence in the brain

MAK Peters, T Thesen, YD Ko, B Maniscalco… - Nature human …, 2017 - nature.com
Our perceptual experiences are accompanied by a subjective sense of certainty. These
confidence judgements typically correlate meaningfully with the probability that the relevant …

Highly stable glassy carbon interfaces for long-term neural stimulation and low-noise recording of brain activity

M Vomero, E Castagnola, F Ciarpella, E Maggiolini… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We report on the superior electrochemical properties, in-vivo performance and long term
stability under electrical stimulation of a new electrode material fabricated from …

Electrocorticography for seizure foci mapping in epilepsy surgery

IS Fernández, T Loddenkemper - Journal of Clinical …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Patients with refractory focal epilepsy are thoroughly evaluated to identify an area of cortex
that, if removed or disconnected, will lead to seizure freedom. Clinical semiology …

PEDOT-CNT-coated low-impedance, ultra-flexible, and brain-conformable micro-ECoG arrays

E Castagnola, L Maiolo, E Maggiolini… - … on Neural Systems …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrocorticography (ECoG) is becoming a common tool for clinical applications, such as
preparing patients for epilepsy surgery or localizing tumor boundaries, as it successfully …

Numerical processing in the human parietal cortex during experimental and natural conditions

M Dastjerdi, M Ozker, BL Foster, V Rangarajan… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Human cognition is traditionally studied in experimental conditions wherein confounding
complexities of the natural environment are intentionally eliminated. Thus, it remains …

Smaller, softer, lower-impedance electrodes for human neuroprosthesis: a pragmatic approach

E Castagnola, A Ansaldo, E Maggiolini, T Ius… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Finding the most appropriate technology for building electrodes to be used for long term
implants in humans is a challenging issue. What are the most appropriate technologies …

Direct current electrocorticography for clinical neuromonitoring of spreading depolarizations

JA Hartings, C Li, JM Hinzman… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Spreading depolarizations cause cortical electrical potential changes over a wide spectral
range that includes slow potentials approaching the direct current (or 0 Hz) level. The …

Biologically compatible neural interface to safely couple nanocoated electrodes to the surface of the brain

E Castagnola, A Ansaldo, E Maggiolini, GN Angotzi… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The ongoing interest in densely packed miniaturized electrode arrays for high-resolution
epicortical recordings has induced many researchers to explore the use of nanomaterial …

Somatotopic mapping of natural upper-and lower-extremity movements and speech production with high gamma electrocorticography

J Ruescher, O Iljina, DM Altenmüller, A Aertsen… - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Precise delineation of pathological and eloquent cortices is essential in pre-neurosurgical
diagnostics of epilepsy. A limitation of existing experimental procedures, however, is that …