Behavioral assessment of sensitivity to intracortical microstimulation of primate somatosensory cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 15202-15207

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Brainmachine interfaces; Just noticeable difference; Neuroprosthetics; Psychophysics; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; INTRACORTICAL MICROSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAILWAY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MACACA MULATTA; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84949267027     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509265112     Document Type: Article

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