I had the pleasure of spending some time with the team in Linköping University 🇸🇪 brainstorming on fascinating projects on the sense of #touch.

Many thanks to Sarah McIntyre & team for the warm welcome and stimulating conversations!

Can't wait to collaborate!

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...

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

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

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 🧠⚡

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

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

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

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

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

5/ Finally, we integrated this rich feedback in the brain-controlled bionic hand! We conclude that principled spatiotemporal patterning of ICMS can evoke #rich and #complex sensations to expand the repertoire of artificial touch in bionic hands.

4/ Adding temporal patterning to the paradigms, we sequentially delivered ICMS through electrodes, which induced sensations of #movement across their skin. We could also systematically manipulate the #direction and #speed of perceived motion across the skin.

3/ First, we simultaneously delivered spatially-patterned ICMS through electrodes whose projected fields – the patch of skin over which the sensation is experienced – were arranged in a line. Unprompted, the participants reported the sensation of an #edge

2/ We sought to expand the repertoire of ICMS-based artificial #touch to confer greater dexterity to brain-controlled bionic hands. We conveyed info about the local geometrical features of objects, leveraging our understanding of how these sensory features are encoded in #S1.

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

We convey appropriate force signals via ICMS to S1 for bionic hands. This ICMS evokes touch sensations experienced over a spatially-restricted patch of skin.
We take a deep dive into the size, distribution, reliability, and neural determinants of these so-called projected fields

Check out our new paper 'Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex' on @NatureBiomedicalEngineering 🦾 🧠 ⚡

LINK: www.nature.com/articles/s41...