Sequential Monte Carlo Point-Process Estimation of Kinematics from Neural Spiking Activity for Brain-Machine Interfaces

Neural Computation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2894-2930

  Wang, Yiwen ^a   Paiva, António R C ^a   C príncipe, José ^a   Sanchez, Justin C ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECODING; KALMAN FILTERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DECODING ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHODOLOGIES; HANDS MOVEMENT; NEURAL DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE; POINT PROCESS; PROCESS ESTIMATION; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO ESTIMATIONS; SPIKE TIMING;

KINEMATICS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB PROSTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARM; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 68149183758     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.01-08-699     Document Type: Letter

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