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Creating a neuroprosthesis for active tactile exploration of textures

View ORCID ProfileJoseph E. O’Doherty, Solaiman Shokur, View ORCID ProfileLeonel E. Medina, Mikhail A. Lebedev, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
PNAS October 22, 2019 116 (43) 21821-21827; first published October 7, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908008116
Joseph E. O’Doherty
aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
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Solaiman Shokur
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cSchool of Engineering, Institute of Microengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1016 Lausanne, Switzerland;
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Mikhail A. Lebedev
dDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710;
eDuke Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
fCenter for Bioelectric Interfaces of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 101000;
gDepartment of Information and Internet Technologies of Digital Health Institute, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia 119146;
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Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
dDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710;
eDuke Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
hDepartment of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
iDepartment of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
jDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
kEdmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Macaíba, Brazil 59280-000
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  • For correspondence: nicoleli@neuro.duke.edu
  1. Edited by Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, and approved September 11, 2019 (received for review May 12, 2019)

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vol. 116 no. 43 21821-21827
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908008116
PubMed: 
31591224

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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue October 22, 2019.
  • Published first October 7, 2019.

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  1. Joseph E. O’Dohertya,1,2,
  2. Solaiman Shokurb,c,1,3,
  3. Leonel E. Medinaa,4,
  4. Mikhail A. Lebedevd,e,f,g, and
  5. Miguel A. L. Nicolelisa,d,e,h,i,j,k,5
  1. aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  2. bNeurorehabilitation Laboratory, Associação Alberto Santos Dumont para Apoio à Pesquisa (AASDAP), São Paulo, Brazil, 05440-000;
  3. cSchool of Engineering, Institute of Microengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1016 Lausanne, Switzerland;
  4. dDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710;
  5. eDuke Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
  6. fCenter for Bioelectric Interfaces of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 101000;
  7. gDepartment of Information and Internet Technologies of Digital Health Institute, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia 119146;
  8. hDepartment of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
  9. iDepartment of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710;
  10. jDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  11. kEdmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Macaíba, Brazil 59280-000
  1. Edited by Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, and approved September 11, 2019 (received for review May 12, 2019)

Footnotes

  • ↵1J.E.O. and S.S. contributed equally to this work.

  • ↵2Present address: Department of Neuroscience, Neuralink Corp., San Francisco, CA 94110.

  • ↵3Present address: Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Bioengineering, EPFL, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.

  • ↵4Present address: Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 9160000 Santiago, Chile.

  • ↵5To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: nicoleli{at}neuro.duke.edu.
  • Author contributions: J.E.O., S.S., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. designed research; J.E.O., L.E.M., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. performed research; J.E.O., S.S., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. analyzed data; and J.E.O., S.S., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no competing interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1908008116/-/DCSupplemental.

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