Sliman Bensmaia, PhD | Biological and Bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial perception
Guest Lecture
- Date: Mar 5, 2019
- Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Sliman Bensmaia, PhD
- Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, USA
- Location: MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Room: Wilhelm Wundt Room (A400)
My goal is to discover how sensory information is encoded in the
activity of neurons along the somatosensory neuraxis, spanning the senses
of touch and proprioception. To this end, we record neuronal responses,
measure the elicited percepts, and develop mathematical models to link the
neuronal representations to behavior. We then leverage our basic scientific
insights to develop approaches to convey somatosensory feedback through
neuronal microstimulation for use in upper-limb neuroprostheses.