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Creating a neuroprosthesis for active tactile exploration of textures
Edited by Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, and approved September 11, 2019 (received for review May 12, 2019)

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- Published in issue October 22, 2019.
- Published first October 7, 2019.
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- Joseph E. O’Dohertya,1,2,
- Solaiman Shokurb,c,1,3,
- Leonel E. Medinaa,4,
- Mikhail A. Lebedevd,e,f,g, and
- Miguel A. L. Nicolelisa,d,e,h,i,j,k,5
- aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
- bNeurorehabilitation Laboratory, Associação Alberto Santos Dumont para Apoio à Pesquisa (AASDAP), São Paulo, Brazil, 05440-000;
- cSchool of Engineering, Institute of Microengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1016 Lausanne, Switzerland;
- 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;
- 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
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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