The Annual BCI Award

Guangye Li¹, Meng Wang¹, Shize Jiang², Jie Hu², Liang Chen², Dingguo Zhang³

Enhancing gesture decoding performance using signals from human posterior parietal cortex

1 Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2 Neurosurgery Department of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
3 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Bath University, Bath, UK

Joseph G. Makin, David A. Moses, Edward F. Chang

Machine translation of cortical activity to text

Center for Integrative Neuroscience/Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

Benjamin Wittevrongel^1,3, Niall Holmes², Elena Boto², Ryan Hill², Molly Rea², Ben Hunt², Arno Libert¹, Elvira Khachatryan¹, Marc Van Hulle^1,3, Richard Bowtell², Matthew Brookes²

Towards practical MEG-BCI with optically pumped magnetometers

1 Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, KU Leuven, Belgium
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK
3 KU Leuven institute for Artificial Intelligence (Leuven.AI), Belgium

Zied Tayeb¹, Rohit Bose^2,3, Andrei Dragomir^2,4, Luke E. Osborn^5,6, Nitish V. Thakor^5,7, Gordon Cheng¹

EEG decoding of pain perception for a real-time reflex system in prostheses

1 Institute for Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
3 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA
4 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, USA
5 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
6 Research Exploratory Development, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
7 Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Giacomo Valle, Francesco Maria Petrini Pavle Mijovic, Bogdan Mijovic, Stanisa Raspopovic

A computer-brain interface that restores lost extremities touch and movement sensations

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich

Patrick D. Ganzer, Samuel C. Colachis, Michael A. Schwemmer, David A. Friedenberg, Collin F. Dunlap, Carly E. Swiftney, Adam F. Jacobowitz, Doug J. Weber, Marcia A. Bockbrader, Gaurav Sharma

Restoring the sense of touch using a sensorimotor demultiplexing neural interface

Battelle Memorial Institute, USA

Tomislav Milekovic^1,2,3,4, Flavio Raschellà^1,2,3,5, Matthew G. Perich², Eduardo Martin Moraud^1,2,3,6, Shiqi Sun^1,2,3,7, Giuseppe Schiavone⁸, Yang Jianzhong^9,10, Andrea Galvez^1,2,3,4, Christopher Hitz¹, Alessio Salomon¹, Jimmy Ravier^1,2,3, David Borton^1,11, Jean Laurens^1,12, Isabelle Vollenweider¹, Simon Borgognon^1,2,3, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot¹, Wai Kin D Ko^9,10, Cheng YunLong^9,10, Li Hao^9,10, Peng Hao^9,10, Laurent Petit^13,14, Qin Li^9,10, Marco Capogrosso¹, Tim Denison¹⁵, Stéphanie P. Lacour⁸, Silvestro Micera^5,16, Chuan Qin¹⁰, Jocelyne Bloch^1,2,3,6, Erwan Bezard9^{,10, 13,14}, Grégoire Courtine^1,2,3,6

A brain–spine interface complements deep-brain stimulation to both alleviate gait and balance deficits and increase alertness in a primate model of Parkinson’s disease

1 Center for Neuroprosthetics (CNP) and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
2 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
3 Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (NeuroRestore), CHUV/UNIL/EPFL, Switzerland
4 Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
5 CNP and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
6 Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, Switzerland
7 Beijing Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Rehabilitation, College of Engineering, Peking University, People's Republic of China
8 CNP, Institute of Microengineering and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
9 Motac Neuroscience, UK
10 Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, China Academy of Medical Sciences, People's Republic of China
11 Carney Institute for Brain Science, School of Engineering, Brown University, USA
12 Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
13 Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives (IMN), UMR 5293, France
14 CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, France
15 Oxford University, UK
16 The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Cong Han^1,2, James O’Sullivan^1,2, Yi Luo^1,2, Jose Herrero³, Ashesh D. Mehta³, Nima Mesgarani^1,2

Speaker-independent auditory attention decoding without access to clean speech sources

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
2 Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, NY, USA

Francis R. Willett^1,2, Donald T. Avansino¹, Leigh Hochberg³, Jaimie Henderson¹, Krishna V. Shenoy^1,2

A high-performance handwriting BCI

1 Stanford University, USA
2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
3 Brown University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

A neuromorphic brain computer interface for real-time detection of a new biomarker for epilepsy surgery

1 University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Switzerland 

2 University Hospital and University of Zurich, Switzerland

Xiang Wu, Paul Chong, Huiliang Wang, Guosong Hong

“Sono-optogenetics”: An ultrasound-mediated non-invasive optogenetic brain-computer interface

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, USA

Alexandre Moly¹, Thomas Costecalde¹, Félix Martel¹, Antoine Lassauce¹, Serpil Karakas¹, Gael Reganha¹, Alexandre Verney², Benoit Milville², Guillaume Charvet¹, Stéphan Chabardes³, Alim Louis Benabid¹, Tetiana Aksenova¹

High-dimensional (8D) control of complex effectors such as an exoskeleton by a tetraplegic subject using chronic ECoG recordings using stable and robust over time adaptive direct neural decoder

1 CEA, LETI, CLINATEC, University Grenoble Alpes, MINATEC, France
2 CEA, LIST, DIASI, SRI, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
3 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, France