Sensitivity to microstimulation of somatosensory cortex distributed over multiple electrodes

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Sungshin ^a   Callier, Thierri ^a   Tabot, Gregg A ^b   Tenore, Francesco V ^c   Bensmaia, Sliman J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectionperformance; Discriminationtask; Intracorticalmicrostimulation; Neuroprosthetics; Non humanprimates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MALE; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84928137650     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00047     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bensmaia, S. J., and Miller, L. E. (2014). Restoring sensorimotor function through intracortical interfaces: progress and looming challenges. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 15, 313-325. doi: 10.1038/nrn3724
2. Berg, J. A., Dammann, J. F. III, Tenore, F. V., Tabot, G. A., Boback, J. L., Manfredi, L. R., et al. (2013). Behavioral demonstration of a somatosensory neuroprosthesis. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 21, 500-507. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2244616
3. Collinger, J. L., Wodlinger, B., Downey, J. E., Wang, W., Tyler-Kabara, E. C., Weber, D. J., et al. (2013). High-performance neuroprosthetic control by an individual with tetraplegia. Lancet 381, 557-564. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61816-9
4. Dadarlat, M. C., O'Doherty, J. E., and Sabes, P. N. (2014). A learning-based approach to artificial sensory feedback leads to optimal integration. Nat. Neurosci. 18, 138-144.doi: 10.1038/nn.3883
5. Ghose, K., and Maunsell, J. H. (2012). A strong constraint to the joint processing of pairs of cortical signals. J. Neurosci. 32, 15922-15933. doi: 10.1523/JNEUR0SCI.2186-12.2012
6. Histed, M. H., and Maunsell, J. H. (2014). Cortical neural populations can guide behavior by integrating inputs linearly, independent of synchrony. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111, E178-E187.doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318750111
7. Hochberg, L. R., Bacher, D., Jarosiewicz, B., Masse, N. Y., Simeral, J. D., Vogel, J., et al. (2012). Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm. Nature 485, 372-375. doi: 10.1038/nature11076
8. Kim, S. S., Callier, T., Tabot, G. A., Tenore, F. V., and Bensmaia, S. J. (2014). “Discrimination of electrical stimulation to primary somatosensory cortex" in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
9. Koivuniemi, A. S., and Otto, K. J. (2011). Asymmetric versus symmetric pulses for cortical microstimulation. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 19, 468-476. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2166563
10. London, B. M., Jordan, L. R., Jackson, C. R., and Miller, L. E. (2008). Electrical stimulation of the proprioceptive cortex (area 3a) used to instruct a behaving monkey. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 16, 32-36. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2007.907544
11. McCreery, D., Pikov, V., and Troyk, P. R. (2010). Neuronal loss due to prolonged controlled-current stimulation with chronically implanted microelectrodes in the cat cerebral cortex. J. Neural Eng. 7:036005. doi: 10.1088/1741¬2560/7/3/036005
12. O'Doherty, J. E., Lebedev, M. A., Ifft, P. J., Zhuang, K. Z., Shokur, S., Bleuler, H., et al. (2011). Active tactile exploration using a brain-machine-brain interface. Nature 479, 228-231. doi: 10.1038/nature10489
13. Ranck, J. B. Jr. (1975). Which elements are excited in electrical stimulation of mammalian central nervous system: A review. Brain Res. 98, 417-440. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(75)90364-9
14. Schmidt, E., Bak, M., Hambrecht, F., Kufta, C., O'rourke, D., and Vallabhanath, P. (1996). Feasibility of a visual prosthesis for the blind based on intra- cortical micro stimulation of the visual cortex. Brain 119, 507-522. doi: 10.1093/brain/119.2.507
15. Stoney, S. D. Jr., Thompson, W. D., and Asanuma, H. (1968). Excitation of pyrami¬dal tract cells by intracortical microstimulation: Effective extent of stimulating current. J. Neurophysiol. 31, 659-669.
16. Tabot, G. A., Boback, J. L., and Dammann J. F. III, Tenore, F. V., and Bensmaia, S. J. (2013a). “Restoring touch using a brain interface: Dependence of artificial percepts on stimulation parameters," in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
17. Tabot, G. A., Dammann, J. F., Berg, J. A., Tenore, F. V., Boback, J. L., Vogelstein, R. J., et al. (2013b). Restoring the sense of touch with a prosthetic hand through a brain interface. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, 18279-18284. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1221113110
18. Tabot, G. A., Kim, S. S., Winberry, J. E., and Bensmaia, S. J. (2014). Restoring tactile and proprioceptive sensation through a brain interface. Neurobiol. Dis. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.08.029 [Epub ahead of print].
19. Tehovnik, E., Tolias, A., Sultan, F., Slocum, W., and Logothetis, N. (2006). Direct and indirect activation of cortical neurons by electrical microstimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 96, 512-521. doi: 10.1152/jn.00126.2006
20. Thomson, E. E., Carra, R., and Nicolelis, M. A. (2013). Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis. Nat. commun. 4: 1482.
21. Zaaimi, B., Ruiz-Torres, R., Solla, S. A., and Miller, L. E. (2013). Multi-electrode stimulation in somatosensory cortex increases probability of detection. J Neural Eng. 10:056013. doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/10/5/056013