The news is out! Max Hodak’s Science Corporation has bought Pixium-Vision’s assets - the PRIMA implant will live on under new leadership! 🎉 Stay tuned for the full scoop - going live on bionic-vision.org tomorrow!

Check out our new #BCI shorturl.at/nKwnH. Subdural, flexible μECoG device features 65,536 channels, with bi-directional wireless communication and power enabling decoding the primate brain with high spatiotemporal resolution. Compare specs to other #BCIs

I am moving my lab (willseylab.org) to the University of Michigan in August. I am in the process of hiring 4 engineering postdocs and am still looking to fill 2 more positions to advance motor decoding, BCI control of digital interfaces and/or reanimation of the native

Delighted to share our perspective piece “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought” now out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… (with long-term collaborators (and friends) steven t. piantadosi and Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT) 1/n

20 years ago today, an extraordinary 24-year-old, unable to move his hands due to cervical spinal cord injury, volunteered to have a tiny sensor placed into his brain so that he could control a computer cursor, his room lights, and a robot arm just by thinking about it.

A revised version of our preprint on precisely replicating neural activity through a dynamic, cellular-resolution electrical stimulation sequence using temporal dithering and spatial multiplexing. New experimental validation led by AJ Phillips. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Was a lot of fun chatting with Matt Angle, Grayson, and Alex about why delivering power to implants is a key technology for next-gen neurotech. Check it out fellow nerds! 🤓 🧠

Nixels and Pixels: Introducing Science's Chip Families for Neural Recording And Stimulation 😀 science.xyz/news/nixels-an…

1/5 Excited to finally share our new paper (led by Laura Driscoll, now a group leader at the Allen!) in Nature Neuroscience on modular computation in neural networks! We've explored how artificial recurrent networks handle multiple tasks, offering insights into flexible computation.

(1/12) I am thrilled to share that the capstone of my postdoc, completed alongside my mentor Sameer Sheth, Wayne Goodman, and my amazing co-first authors Sandy Reddy and Anthony Allam is out today in Nature Medicine! BCM Neurosurgery The OCD Program at Baylor College of Medicine Rice Neuroengineering Initiative rdcu.be/dNCVl

Going for a higher resolution: A recent 2.9 million dollar grant from NIH is helping researchers in the lab of Chong Xie improve their innovative ultraflexible nanoelectronic probes by increasing the density of the neurons sampled. Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice…

Have an interest in motor and visual neuroscience and want to work in a lab that is developing state-of-the-art neurotech? Apply for this postdoc position and come join us Rice Neuroengineering Initiative. #neuroscience #neuropostdoc #neurotech emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

1/ Our bioRxiv on optimal placement of high-channel visual prostheses in the human retinotopic visual cortex is up! As #neurotech matures, there will be a critical need for large-scale prediction & optimization of visual coverage in implant users tinyurl.com/optimalVision

This is an incredible career-launching postdoc opportunity with Ben Hayden and Sameer Sheth!!!! Come join us in Houston! I’m clearly biased, but we have a great group in an awesome city (… the largest medical center in the world!) 💥🧠⚡️

New study out of Cynthia Chestek by Matt Mender and crew showing reanimation of simultaneous wrist and finger movements using functional electrical stimulation Michigan Neurosurgery U-M BME UMichNeurosciences biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is a huge step in making speech brain computer interfaces a usable therapy. No speech -> brain-to-text in daily use. Congrats everyone!

This podcast points out some of the difficulties faced by people living with ALS. It also highlights how a person living with paralysis can use a BCI to communicate with friends, family, and care partners. The impact of disease on care-partners is often under-appreciated!

Excited to share our NEW preprint: a "brain-to-voice" neuroprosthesis that directly synthesizes voice from neural activity with closed-loop audio feedback. It allowed a man with ALS to speak expressively by modulating intonation & sing melodies via BCI! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 1/

This is an incredible advance ! Congrats Maitreyee Wairagkar et al!