🎉I’m grateful that my project #BionicDexterity has been awarded a 2.5M € ERC Starting Grant! 🧠🦾 Over 5 years, we’ll investigate at #Chalmers how to create a multimodal #iBCI capable of restoring dexterity after paralysis @erc.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Intracortical microstimulation electrodes are safe and produce consistent sensations for as long as a decade in patients with spinal cord injury, supporting their utility in #BrainComputer interface interventions. Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fmHddQ

Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans

Intracortical microstimulation in humans is safe and efficacious for up to 10 years.

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After more than 5 decades of parallel development, #corticalstimulation for artificial #vision & artificial #touch is beginning to converge rdcu.be/flRzh Our new @natrevbioeng.nature.com review brings together shared principles and modality-specific strategies across both fields

Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation

Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Cortical sensory prostheses aim to restore vision and touch by stimulating primary visual and somatosensory cortices. This Review examines shared challenges and...

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NEW PREPRINT OUT! Happy to share that our #preprint on how the human #brain encodes #touch: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We investigate how touch is encoded in the human #somatosensory and #motor cortices recorded via #microelectrode arrays across different tactile conditions

Our latest preprint uses the brain's own recognition, and prediction, of movement errors to improve Brain-Computer Interface control. This work, led by @camillegontier.bsky.social and @jenpitt.bsky.social, sets the stage for more accurate and easy-to-use BCIs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are excited to share the preprint for a new project, "Finding the groove in neural space". www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/4

Finding the groove in neural space

The neural signature of rhythm and tempo remains difficult to study in both humans and non-human primates. Here we recorded from the motor cortex of human participants implanted with intracortical mic...

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Huge thanks to our generous sponsors — Blackrock Neurotech, Cleveland FES Center, Brain Products / Brain Vision, and CorTec — for supporting the BCI Society’s SfN Social 2025! Your partnership makes this special event possible. Learn more: bcisociety.org/bci-social-a... #BCISocial #SfN2025

The BCI Society is excited to introduce a new, discounted membership for BCI users and their family members or caregivers. See bcisociety.org/membership/ for details.

The most recent CBRG preprint on intracortical microstimulation is now available! Over 24 combined years across 5 participants, we delivered 168 million!!! pulses of stimulation and recorded everything that happened. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intracortical microstimulation in humans: a decade of safety and efficacy

Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex can restore a sense of touch to people with spinal cord injury (SCI). In this early-feasibility clinical trial, we evaluate the...

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We had a great time at the @bcisociety.bsky.social meeting in Banff, Canada. We gathered almost all (@hunterschone.bsky.social?) the CBRG attendees (current and former) for the official photo. @jenpitt.bsky.social @giacomovalle.bsky.social @johndowney.bsky.social @miskarous.bsky.social

Here’s our latest publication, from Ceci Verbaarschot and colleagues. In this study, participants controlled their own implanted BCI brain stimulation patterns to create customized sensations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex - Nature Communications

In this study, three individuals with tetraplegia designed vivid, reliable and object-appropriate sensations with a variety of tactile characteristics using self-selected stimulus parameters that stim...

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Our work featured in: @thetimes.com by Tom Whipple www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

The paralysed people moving robotic arms with their minds

A Swedish study aims to restore their ability to feel and handle objects — and gain independence

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Check out @giacomovalle.bsky.social's summary of our new paper showing the details that we can convey to BCI users through spatio-temporally patterned stimulation in somatosensory cortex. This is a great step towards restoring natural sensation from future prosthetic hands.

Giacomo Valle@giacomovalle.bsky.social · 2y ago

New in @science.org our study "Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex". 🦾 🧠 ⚡ science.org/doi/10.1126/... Interesting related perspective by prof. Paul Marasco science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper examining the #ethical and #technical requirements in clinical trials for implantable neural prostheses is out in #LancetDigitalHealth today. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #neuroprosthetics

Our new publication in Human Brain Mapping is a roadmap to implanting stimulation electrodes to evoke tactile sensations on the fingers of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) users. We share the plan and results for 5 study participants across a decade at 2 sites. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Marc Schieber has published his insightful thoughts on the below paper and where it fits in the broader efforts towards dexterous neuroprosthetic hands in Nature BME: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stimulating localizable sensations - Nature Biomedical Engineering

Overlapping projected fields from multiple intracortical electrodes produce sensations on the hand that are more easily localizable, as shown in three participants with cervical spinal cord injury.

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Cortical Bionics Research Group@corticalbionics.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex - Nature Biomedical Engineering

An analysis of the localization and intensity of intracortical microstimulation in three participants with cervical spinal cord injury shows that overlapping projected fields from multiple electrodes ...

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There's a great new story out today in Nature about the state of sensory neuroprosthetic research. It features one of our participants from the University of Chicago and glimpses of exciting research from around the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing

Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs.

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We are seeking a postdoc to work in sensorimotor neuroscience with brain-computer interfaces (BCI). The projects will focus on dexterous hand control through neural recordings and restoration of sensation to neural stimulation.

Check out our first paper, out today, from the Cortical Bionics Research Group's (@corticalbionics.bsky.social) multisite brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trial for people with upper-limb paralysis at UChicago and @pitt.bsky.social . 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Here the authors record the responses evoked in the hand and arm representations of M1 during intracortical microstimulation in the hand representation of S1, and show somatotopically organized connec...

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