Sliman Bensmaia, PhD | Biological and Bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial perception

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.