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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

 

Last update of this page: Jan 16, 2020