12 - Motor neuroprosthetics
Topics addressed in the lecture:
- Interdisciplinary nature of brain-machine interfaces (BMI)
- Invasive and non-invasive BMI
- Sensory BMI
- Motor BMI
- Ethical considerations related to neural enhancement
- Future perspectives of neural prosthetics
Examples for questions you should be able to answer:
- How do sensory and motor prostheses function differently? What communication methods do they use for transmitting information?
- What are the main advantages and disadvantages of invasive and non-invasive BMI?
- What are currently the main obstacles/reasons that prevent BMI technology to be widely used in paralyzed patients?
Important concepts:
- Advantages and disadvantages of invasive BMI
- BMI miniaturization needed for clinical applications
- Neural prosthetics vs. neural enhancement
Topics addressed in the lecture:
- Stimulus-Sensation-Perception
- Structure of eye and retina
- Processing principles related to the structure of the retina
- Cone and rod photoreceptor types
- Encoding of spatial information
- Encoding of color information
Examples for questions you should be able to answer:
- What is hierarchical coding?
- What is retinotopy?
Important concepts:
- Labeled-line coding
- Hierarchical vs. parallel vs. horizontal processing
- Receptive field
- Retinotopy
- Local coding
- Coarse coding
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