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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · 2d

What if a #bionic #hand could not only move with your thoughts—but also feel edges, textures, and motion? Nice conversation with Milena Korostenskaja on restoring touch through bidirectional #brain-computer-interfaces:

#neurocareers #BCIs #neuroprosthetics

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Podcast | Neurocareers

A successful career in neuroscience or neurotechnologies? Possible! Get the career advice you were looking for! Tune into the international Neurocareers podcast to hear stories of those who have alrea...

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in the current challenges of cortical #somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled #bionic hands 🧠 🦾?
Comment on @NatureReviews Electrical Engineering

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Link: nature.com/articles/s44...

@springernature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com #NeuralBionicsLab #Chalmers

Cortical somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled bionic hands

Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering - Somatosensory feedback is an essential feature of neural prostheses that aim to restore natural hand dexterity after neurological injuries. This Comment...

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Culmination of a collaboration with partners in neuroprosthetics: Elisa Donati, Thomas Stieglitz, Stanisa Raspopovic.

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Aug 25

During phantom limb movements, motor signals emerge from the tibial nerve of amputees🦿, revealing joint- and direction-specific neural activity 🧠 A SNN-based decoder could capture these patterns, outperforming conventional methods.

Paper by Cecilia Rossi: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 21

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief

go.nature.com/3Jp9NPG

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

go.nature.com

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Cortical Bionics Research Group @corticalbionics.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jun 13

Amazing research! Congrats to Eduardo Fernandez and his team! 🧠 ⚡️👁

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tq...

The hope of artificial vision for those with total sight loss

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jun 13

www.pcforalla.se/article/2801...

Cyborg på riktigt – framtidens människa är redan verklighet

Framtiden är närmare än du tror – redan idag finns tekniken som gör det möjligt att bli en riktig cyborg.

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jun 9

Feeling energized by science, people, and the natural beauty of Canada 🌲✨
#BCI #Neuroscience #Neurotech #NeuralBionicsLab @corticalbionics.bsky.social #Chalmers

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jun 9

Next stop: the breathtaking landscapes of Banff and the 11th Bci Society Meeting with brainstormings about the future of #BCI! 🧠 💻 Sensorimotor #neuroprosthetics workshop with Tetiana Aksenova Solaiman Shokur Henri Lorach Robert Gaunt and Lucas Struber

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jun 9

What an incredible trip across Canada! 🇨🇦🦾

My journey started in Montreal, where I reconnected with my dear friend and brilliant researcher @marcobon.bsky.social and his fascinating work on cortical stimulation for movement restoration — truly cutting-edge research 🧠⚡

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks @jacob-lab.bsky.social for sharing your fantastic science in the field of #iBCI 🧠

Strengthening the EU network for human brain interfacing 🦾

Technical University of Munich @marcelloienca.bsky.social Markus Ploner Kristen Kozielski
Melissa Zavaglia Gordon Cheng BCI Pioneers Coalition

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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · May 21

If you’re in the Munich area tomorrow, join us for the next #Neurotechnology #Lecture @tum.de by @giacomovalle.bsky.social on „Brain-controlled bionic limbs“ 🧠🦾

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · May 12

Inspiring session and Q/A with the iBCI pioneer Scott Imbrie
from the University of Chicago and our students at Chalmers University of Technology

Many thanks to all the BCI pioneers for their amazing work!!! 🦾

@corticalbionics.bsky.social #bcipioneers #iBCI-CC #bionics #beinspiring

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy to have also visited prof. Hans Scherberger and his fantastic lab at the #DPZ, looking foward to future collaborations! #primateresearchmatters

#NeuralBionicsLab #neuroprosthetics #neuroscience #bionics Chalmers University of Technology

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks to Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion from the
#jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Inspiring visit to Göttingen last week! Attended the
#NWG2025 – Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. Inspiring talks like the one by prof. Richard Andersen from #Caltech and many interesting neuroscientific discussions

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 27

Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky.

Learn more: scim.ag/3DJVR0d

Multipart graphic. The top shows a timeline of language acquisition from newborn to 12 months. The bottom shows an illustration of a baby with a cochlear implant, a diagram of the implant in the ear, and a zoom in on the cochlea with an electrode array.

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Mar 6

New paper with the Neuromuscular Lab @University of Michigan⁦‪⁦‪‬⁩ with Jacky Tian Paul Cederna Stephen Kemp 🦾
www.linkedin.com/posts/jacky-...

Jacky Tian on LinkedIn: #biomimetic #neuroprosthetic #neuroprosthetics #bionics #neural_engineering

Excited to share our latest publication in Biomimetics "The Next Frontier in Neuroprosthetics: Integration of Biomimetic Somatosensory Feedback"! In this…

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Mar 3

@NIH Research Matters featuring our work on #bionic touch in #iBCI @corticalbionics.bsky.social

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Creating an artificial sense of touch

Tiny electrodes placed precisely in the brain let people with spinal cord injuries feel sensations of shape, motion, and the orientation of objects on the skin.

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Feb 24

Thanks Amos Matsiko, editor in #ScienceRobotics for highlighting our work

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@corticalbionics.bsky.social #bionics #neuroprosthetics
Charles Greenspon Sliman Bensmaia

Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands

Somatosensory cortex stimulation enabled restoration of tactile feedback, permitting bionic hand users to discern objects.

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Jan 31

Interview on our #iBCI study with Ross Kaminsky at The Ross Kaminsky Show!

iHeart Media iHeartRadio Chalmers University of technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #bionics #neuroprosthetics

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · Jan 29

Valle et al. developed intracortical microstimulation approaches able to deliver enriched somatosensory percepts similar to those evoked in natural touch in individuals with spinal cord injury. https://buff.ly/4gfstfn @giacomovalle.bsky.social

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