Event
Thought to Action| Title of the event | Thought to Action |
| Series | Blumenbach Lecture Series |
| Organizer | Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie |
| Speaker | Richard A. Andersen |
| Speaker institution | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA |
| Type of event | Vortrag |
| Category | Forschung |
| Registration required | Nein |
| Details | To explore how intentions may be used for neural prosthetic applications, we have implanted microelectrode arrays in a high-level cortical area, the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), in human tetraplegics. We find that human PPC is very high dimensi-onal, coding a variety of variables including movements of both hands and both shoulders, observed actions, cognitive strategies, and memory-based decisions. This high dimensional coding is an advantage for neural prosthetics as a great deal of information can be read out from a single array in PPC. Tetraplegic patients cannot feel their bodies below the level of injury. To provide back somatosensati-on, in one tetraplegic participant we have intracortically microstimulated the primary somatosensory cortex with small electrical currents through microelectro-de arrays. The participant reported natural quality cutaneous and proprioceptive sensations: promising results for allowing natural-seeming somatosensory feed-back for more dexterous brain-control of robotic limbs. |
| Date | Start: 22.05.2019, 16:15 Uhr Ende: 22.05.2019 , 17:45 Uhr |
| Location |
Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Kellnerweg 4) Hörsaal |
| Contact |
05513920817 nposnie@gwdg.de |
| External link | https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/blumenbach+lec... |
| File attachment | Andersen 22May2019.pdf |