The Annual BCI Award

N1: Charles M. Greenspon¹, Giacomo Valle¹, Natalya D. Shelchkova², Taylor G. Hobbs^3,4, Ceci Verbaarschot^3,5, John E. Downey¹, Robert A. Gaunt^3,5,4,6, and Sliman J. Bensmaia^1,2,7

Multi-channel biomimetic microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex can create intuitive and reliable touch sensations for bionic hand control

1 Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
2 Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
3 Rehab Neural Engineering Labs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
4 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
5 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
6 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
7 Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

N2: Santosh Chandrasekaran, Douglas Griffin, Zeev Elias, Aniket Jangam, Erona Ibroci, Christina Maffei, Stephan Bickel, Adam B. Stein, Ashesh D. Mehta, Chad E. Bouton

Double Neural Bypass: Restoring Lasting Movement and Sensation in Humans

Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine , Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, New York, USA
 

N3: Sean L. Metzger,^*,1,2,3, Kaylo T. Littlejohn,^*,1,2,3, Alexander B. Silva,^*,1,2,3, David A. Moses,^*,1,2, Margaret P. Seaton,^*,1, Ran Wang¹, Maximilian E. Dougherty¹, Jessie R. Liu^1,2,3, Peter Wu⁴, Michael A. Berger⁵, Inga Zhuravleva⁴, Adelyn Tu-Chan⁶, Karunesh Ganguly^2,6, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli^1,2,4, Edward F. Chang^1,2,3

A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control

1 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco,
2 Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, USA.
3 University of California, Berkeley–University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering,
4 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, USA.
5 Speech Graphics. Ltd, Edinburgh, UK.
6 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, USA.

*These five authors contributed equally.

N4: Saehyuck Oh^1,*, Janghwan Jekal^1,*, Jinyoung Won^2,*, Youngjeon Lee^2,**, Kyung-In Jang^1,3,**

Behavior to Byte: Stealthy Neural Recorder

1 Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Republic of Korea
2 Korea Research Institute Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), National Primate Research Center (NPRC), Republic of Koera
3 ENSIDE Corporation, Republic of Korea

* indicates authors who contributed equally; ** denotes the corresponding author.

N5: D. Blair Jovellar, Pedro Gordon, Paolo Belardinelli, Ulf Ziemann 

Memory enhancement through pathway-selective real-time brain state-dependent magnetic stimulation

Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Neurology, Tuebingen, Germany

N6: Benjamin Dieudonné, Ben Somers, Tilde Van Hirtum, Tom Francart

A brain-computer interface for real-time hearing diagnostics based on EEG responses to natural speech

KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology. Herestraat 49 bus 721, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

N7: Nicholas S. Card*¹, Maitreyee Wairagkar*¹, Carrina Iacobacci¹, Xianda Hou¹, Tyler Singer-Clark¹, Maryam Vahdati Nia¹, Francis R. Willett², Erin M. Kunz², Chaofei Fan², Darrel R. Deo², Eun Young Choi², Jamie M. Henderson², Leigh R. Hochberg³, David M. Brandman**¹, Sergey D. Stavisky**¹

A rapidly-deployable high performance speech neuroprosthesis

1 University of California, Davis, USA. 
2 Stanford University, USA
3 Brown University, Providence VA Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

* , ** denotes equal contribution (lead, senior)

N8: Jerry Tang¹, Amanda LeBel², Shailee Jain¹, Alexander G. Huth^1,2

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings

1 Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
2 Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

N9: Michael Jigo¹, Jason B. Carmel^1,2, Qi Wang^1,3 & Charles Rodenkirch^1,4

A non-invasive neuromodulation interface for on-demand enhancements of central sensory processing

1 Sharper Sense, Inc., 11 E Loop Rd, Tata Innovation Center, Suite 381, New York, NY, USA.
2 Department of Neurology and Orthopedics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
4 The Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, New York, NY, USA.

N10: Seungbin Park, Megan Lipton, Maria Dadarlat

Toward an Optical BCI: Overcoming the Limitation of Low Sampling Rate for Decoding Limb Movements

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

N11: Giacomo Valle¹, Natalija Katic Secerovic ^1,2 ,Thomas Stieglitz³, Marko Bumbasirevic⁴ and Stanisa Raspopovic¹ 

Biomimetic BCI conveys naturalistic touch sensations via peripheral nerve stimulation for bionic legs 

1 Laboratory for Neuroengineering, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
2 School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
3 Laboratory for Biomedical Microtechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering–IMTEK, Bernstein Center, BrainLinks-BrainTools Center of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Germany.
4 Orthopaedic Surgery Department, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.

N12: Ahmadreza Keihani¹, Seyed Saman Sajadi², Fatemeh Karbasi², Ehsan Garosi², Hengameh Marzbani², Amin Mohammad Mohammadi², Shahriar Nafissi², Mohsen Reza Haidari², Amir Homayoun Jafari²

An intelligent system for real-time assessment of cortico-muscular coupling index in ALS disease

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
2 Deprtment of Biomedical engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran.