Long-term stability of motor cortical activity: Implications for brain machine interfaces and optimal feedback control

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3623-3632

  Flint, Robert D ^a   Scheid, Michael R ^a   Wright, Zachary A ^a   Solla, Sara A ^b   Slutzky, Marc W ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; LFPs; Minimum intervention; Motor cortex; Optimal feedback control; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRODE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HAND MOVEMENT; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; BIOFEEDBACK; HAPLORHINI; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84961629660     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2339-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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