Ascertaining the importance of neurons to develop better brain-machine interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 943-953

  Sanchez, Justin C ^a   Carmena, Jose M ^b   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^b   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^b   Harris, John G ^a   Principe, Jose C ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Cosine tuning; Information in neural ensembles; Sensitivity based model pruning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MODELS; CELLS; CORRELATION METHODS; KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TUNING;

BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES; ENSEMBLE; MODEL BUILDING;

NEUROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COSINE TUNING ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEURAL ENSEMBLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY BASED MODEL PRUNING; VECTOR LINEAR MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 2442686774     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827061     Document Type: Article

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