The Annual BCI Award

N1: Francis R. Willett^1,2, Chaofei Fan¹, Erin Kunz¹, Donald T. Avansino¹, Foram Kamdar¹, Leigh R. Hochberg³, Krishna V. Shenoy^1,2, Jaimie M. Henderson¹

A high-performance intracortical speech BCI

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

N2: Henri Lorach^1,2,3, Andrea Galvez^1,2,3, Valeria Spagnolo^1,2,3, Felix Martel⁴, Serpil Karakas⁴, Nadine Intering^1,2,3, Molywan Vat^1,2,3, Olivier Faivre⁴, Cathal Harte^1,2,3, Salif Komi^1,2,3, Jimmy Ravier^1,2,3, Thibault Collin^1,2,3, Laure Coquoz^1,2,3, Icare Sakr^1,2,3, Edeny Baaklini^1,2,3, Sergio Daniel Hernandez-Charpak^1,2,3, Gregory Dumont^1,2,3, Rik Buschman⁶, Nicholas Buse⁶, Tim Denison^6,7, Ilse van Nes⁸, Leonie Asboth^1,2,3, Anne Watrin⁹, Lucas Struber⁴, Fabien Sauter-Starace⁴, Lilia Langar⁵, Vincent Auboiroux⁴, Stefano Carda², Stephan Chabardes^4,5, Tetiana Aksenova⁴, Robin Demesmaeker^1,2,3, Guillaume Charvet⁴, Jocelyne Bloch^1,2,3, Grégoire Courtine^1,2,3

Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain-spine interface

1 NeuroX Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland. 
2 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
3 NeuroRestore, Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies, EPFL/CHUV/UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland.  
4 University Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, Clinatec, Grenoble, France. 
5 University Hospital, Grenoble, France. 
6 Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
7 Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 
8 Department of Rehabilitation, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 
9 ONWARD Medical, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

N3: Sean L. Metzger^1,2,3, Jessie R. Liu^1,2,3, David A. Moses^1,2, Maximilian E. Dougherty¹, Margaret P.
Seaton¹, Kaylo T. Littlejohn^1,2,4, Josh Chartier^1,2, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli^1,2,4, Adelyn Tu-Chan⁵, Karunesh Ganguly^2,5, Edward F. Chang^1,2,3

Highly generalizable spelling using a silent-speech BCI in a person with severe anarthria

1 Dept. of Neurological Surgery University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 
2 Weill Institute for Neurosciences UCSF
3 University of California, Berkeley-UCSF Grad. Program in Bioengineering
4 Dept. of Electrical Engr. and C.S., University of California, Berkeley
5 Dept. of Neurology, UCSF 

N4: Simon Geirnaert^1,2,3, Rob Zink^1,3, Tom Francart^2,3, Alexander Bertrand^1,3

Fast and accurate, and unsupervised and time-adaptive EEG-based auditory attention decoding for neuro-steered hearing devices

1 KU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics
2 KU Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Research Group ExpORL
3 Leuven.AI - KU Leuven institute for AI

N5: João Araújo¹, Benjamin D. Simons², Usha Goswami¹

Remediating Phonological Deficits in Dyslexia with a Brain-Computer Interface 

1 Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 
2 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 

N6: Elena Losanno, Marion Badi, Evgenia Roussinova, Andrew Bogaard, Maude Delacombaz, Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera

An implantable brain-body interface using intrafascicular stimulation to restore hand functions

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

N7: Kyuhwa Lee³, Yohann Thenaisie^1,2, Charlotte Moerman^1,2, Stefano Scafa^1,2,4, Andrea Gálvez^2,5, Elvira Pirondini^1,6,7, Morgane Burri^2,5, Jimmy Ravier^2,5, Alessandro Puiatti⁴, Ettore Accolla⁸, Benoit Wicki⁹, André Zacharia^10,11,12, Mayte Castro Jiménez¹¹, Julien F. Bally¹¹, Grégoire Courtine^1,2,5,13, Jocelyne Bloch^1,2,5,13, Eduardo Martin Moraud^1,2

Real-time decoding of leg motor function and dysfunction from the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson’s patients

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland.
2 NeuroRestore, Defitech Centre for Interventional Neurotherapies, CHUV, UNIL, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland. 
3 Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, Geneva CH-1202, Switzerland. 
4 Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare (MeDiTech), University of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Lugano-Viganello CH-6962 Switzerland. 
5 Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, NeuroX Institute, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland. 
6 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15213, PA, USA. 
7 Rehabilitation and Neural Engineering Labs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15213, PA, USA. 
8 Department of Neurology, Hôpital Fribourgeois, Fribourg University, Fribourg CH-1708, Switzerland. 
9 Department of Neurology, Hôpital du Valais, Sion CH-1951, Switzerland. 
10 Clinique Bernoise, Crans-Montana CH-3963, Switzerland. 
11 Department of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland. 
12 Department of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva CH-1201, Switzerland. 
13 Department of Neurosurgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland. 

N8: Priscella Asman¹, Giuseppe Pellizzer², Sudhakar Tummala³, Sujit Prabhu³, Nuri F. Ince¹

Real-Time Intraoperative Sensorimotor Cortex Localization and Consciousness Assessment with the Spatial and Spectral Profile of the Median Nerve Somatosensory Evoked Potentials 

1 University of Houston
2 Minneapolis VA Health Care System & University of Minnesota
3 MD Anderson Cancer Center

N9: Ryohei Fukuma^1,2,3, Takufumi Yanagisawa^1,2,3,4, Shinji Nishimoto^5,6, Hidenori Sugano⁷, Kentaro Tamura⁸, Shota Yamamoto¹, Yasushi Iimura⁷, Yuya Fujita¹, Satoru Oshino¹, Naoki Tani¹, Naoko Koide–Majima^5,6, Yukiyasu Kamitani^2,9, Haruhiko Kishima^1,4

Voluntary control of semantic neural representations by imagery with conflicting visual stimulation

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
2 ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Seika-cho, Japan
3 Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
4 Osaka University Hospital Epilepsy Center, Suita, Japan
5 Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Suita, Japan
6 Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan 
7 Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
8 Department of Neurosurgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
9 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

In virtualis re: An Intracortical NeuroHaptic Interface in Virtual Reality

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

N11: Kathy Ruddy, Colin Simon

A multimodal Brain-Computer Interface approach using muscle responses to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the brain

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Irland

N12: Elizaveta V. Okorokova¹, Anton R. Sobinov², John E. Downey², Qinpu He¹, Ashley van Driesche², David Satzer⁴, Peter C. Warnke^3,4, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos^1,2,3, Sliman J. Bensmaia^1,2,3

May the force be with you: biomimetic grasp force decoding for brain controlled bionic hands 

1 Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2 Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
3 Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL  
4 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL