The Annual BCI Award

Takufumi Yanagisawa^1–6*, Ryohei Fukuma^1,3,4,7, Ben Seymour^8,9, Koichi Hosomi^1,10, Haruhiko Kishima¹, Takeshi Shimizu^1,10, Hiroshi Yokoi¹¹, Masayuki Hirata^1,4, Toshiki Yoshimine^1,4, Yukiyasu Kamitani^3,7,12, Youichi Saitoh^1,10

BCI prosthetic hand to control phantom limb pain

1 Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
2 Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
3 ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
4 CiNet Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Osaka, Japan.
5 JST PRESTO, Osaka, Japan.
6 Osaka University, Japan.
7 Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.
8 University of Cambridge, UK.
9 National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Osaka, Japan.
10 Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
11 The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.
12 Kyoto University, Japan.

Mariska J Vansteensel¹, Elmar GM Pels¹, Martin G. Bleichner², Mariana P. Branco¹, Timothy Denison³, Zachary V. Freudenburg¹, Peter Gosselaar¹, Sacha Leinders¹, Thomas H. Ottens⁴, Max A Van Den Boom¹, Peter C. Van Rijen¹, Erik J. Aarnoutse¹, Nick F Ramsey¹

Implantable Communication Brain-Computer Interface for Home-Use in Locked-In Syndrome

1 Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Dept Neurology and Neurosurgery, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2 Neuropsychology Lab, Department of Psychology, European Medical School, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, University of Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstrasse 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany.
3 Neuromodulation Core Technology, 7000 Central Ave NE, Medtronic PLC, Minneapolis, 55432, USA.
4 University Medical Center Utrecht, Dept Anesthesiology, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Tomislav Milekovic^1,*, Marco Capogrosso^1,2,*, David Borton^1,3,*, Fabien Wagner^1,£, Eduardo Martin Moraud^2,£, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot¹, Nicolas Buse⁴, Jerome Gandar¹, Quentin Barraud¹, David Xing³, Elodie Rey¹, Simone Duis¹, Yang Jianzhong⁵, Wai Kin D. Ko⁵, Qin Li^5,6, Peter Detemple⁶, Tim Denison⁴, Silvestro Micera^2,8,&, Erwan Bezard^5,6,9,10,&, Jocelyne Bloch^11,&, Grégoire Courtine^1,11

A brain-spine interface to alleviate gait deficits after spinal cord injury

1 International foundation for Research in Paraplegia chair in Spinal Cord Repair, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland.
2 Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland.
3 School of Engineering, Brown University, USA.
4 Medtronic, USA.
5 Motac neuroscience Ltd., UK.
6 Institute of Lab Animal Sciences, China Academy of Medical Sciences, China.
7 Fraunhofer ICT-IMM, Germany.
8 The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy.
9 University of Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, France.
10 CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, France; 11 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland.
*, £, & contributed equally to this work.

Ujwal Chaudhary^1,2, Aygul Rana¹, Azim Malekshahi¹, Stefano Silvoni³, Niels Birbaumer^1,2

Brain Computer Interface for Communication with Patients in Completely Locked-in State

1 Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen.
2 Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, Genéva, Switzerland.
3 Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.

Stephanie Martin^1,2, Peter Brunner^3,4, Iñaki Iturrate¹, José del R. Millán¹, Gerwin Schalk^3,4, Robert T. Knight^2,5 & Brian N. Pasley

Individual word classification during imagined speech

1 Defitech Chair in Brain-Machine Interface, Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2 Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
3 National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
4 Department of Neurology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
5 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Surjo R. Soekadar, Matthias Witkowski, Cristina Gómez, Eloy Opisso, Josep Medina, Mario Cortese, Marco Cempini, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Leonardo G. Cohen, Niels Birbaumer, Nicola Vitiello

Restoration of finger movements in everyday life environments using a hybrid brain/neural hand exoskeleton

University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany.

David Hübner^*1, Pieter-Jan Kindermans^*2, Thibault Verhoeven³, Klaus-Robert Müller^2,4,5, Michael Tangermann¹

Rethinking BCI Paradigm and Machine Learning Algorithm as a Symbiosis: Zero Calibration, Guaranteed Convergence and High Decoding Performance

1 Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany.
2 Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany.
3 Ghent University, Belgium.
4 Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
5 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany.
* These authors contributed equally.

Takasaki K¹, Liu F², Hiramato M², Okuyama K², Kawakami M², Mizuno K², Kasuga S^1,3, Noda T⁴, Morimoto J⁴, Fujiwara T⁵, Ushiba J^1,3,*, Liu M²

Targeted up-conditioning of contralesional corticospinal pathways promotes motor recovery in poststroke patients with severe chronic hemiplegia

1 Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan.
2 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan.
3 Keio Institute of Pure and Applied Science (KiPAS), Japan.
4 ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Japan.
5 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan.
* Corresponding author.

Korostenskaja, M.^1,2,3, RaviPrakash, H.⁴, Bagci, U.⁴, Lee, K.H.³, Chen, P.C.^1,3, Salinas, C.³, Baumgartner, J.³, Castillo, E.^2,3

Gold Standard for epilepsy/tumor surgery coupled with deep learning offers independence to a promising functional mapping modality

1 Functional Brain Mapping and Brain Computer Interface Lab, Florida Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA.
2 MEG Lab, Florida Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA.
3 Florida Epilepsy Center, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA.
4 Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Ori Cohen^1,2, Dana Doron³, Moshe Koppel³, Rafael Malach⁴, Doron Friedman¹

High Performance BCI in Controlling an Avatar Using the Missing Hand Representation in Long Term Amputees

1 the Advanced Reality Lab, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC H.), P.O. Box 167 Herzliya, 46150, Israel.
2 the Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel.
3 the Department of Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
4 the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

S. Aliakbaryhosseinabadi¹, E. N. Kamavuako¹, N. Jiang², D. Farina³, N. Mrachacz-Kersting¹

Online adaptive brain-computer interface with attention variations

1 Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
2 Department of Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
3 Imperial College London, London, UK.

Birgit Nierula^1,2, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives^1,2,3,4

Which BCI paradigm is better to induce agency or sense of control over movements?

1 Institut d’Investigacions Biomè diques August Pi I S unyer (IDIBAPS ), Rosselló 149-153, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
2 Event-Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.
3 Institució Catalana Recerca i Estudis Avançats (IC R E A), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
4 Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universitat de Barcelona, Passeig de la Valld'Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.