Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory

Publications

Journal Articles

• Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M. Neural correlates of skill acquisition with a cortical brain-machine interface. Journal of Motor Behavior (accepted for publication)

• Heliot R., Orsborn A., Ganguly K., and Carmena J.M. System architecture for stiffness control in brain-machine interfaces.  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, part A (in press)

• Heliot R., Ganguly K., Jimenez J., and Carmena J.M. Learning in closed-loop brain-machine interfaces: modeling and experimental validation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, part B (in press)

• Ganguly K., Secundo L., Ranade G., Orsborn A., Chang E.F., Dimitrov D.F., Wallis J.D., Barbaro N.M., Knight R.T. and Carmena J.M. (2009). Cortical representation of ipsilateral arm movements in monkey and man. Journal of Neuroscience 29(41).
  

• Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M. (2009). Emergence of a stable cortical map for neuroprosthetic control. PLoS Biology 7(7): e1000153. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000153
  

• Venkatraman S. and Carmena J.M. (2009). Behavioral modulation of stimulus-evoked oscillations in barrel cortex of alert rats. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3:10. doi:10.3389/neuro.07.010.2009
  

• Venkatraman S., Long J.D., Elkabany K., Yao Y. and Carmena J.M. (2009). A system for neural recording and closed-loop intracortical microstimulation in awake rodents. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 56(1), pp. 15-22.

• Kim H.K., Carmena J.M., Biggs S.J., Hanson T.L., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Srinivasan M.A. (2007). The muscle activation method: An approach to impedance control of brain-machine interfaces through a musculoskeletal model of the arm. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 54(8), pp. 1520-1529.

• Zacksenhouse M., Lebedev M.A., Carmena J.M.,  O’Doherty J.E., Henriquez C.S. and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2007). Cortical modulations increase in early sessions with brain-machine interface. Public Library of Science One 7, e619.

• Kim S.-P., Sanchez J.C., Rao Y.N., Erdogmus D., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Principe J.C (2006). A comparison of optimal MIMO linear and nonlinear models for brain-machine interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering 3, pp. 145-161.

• Kim H.K., Biggs S.J., Schloerb D.W., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Srinivasan M.A. (2006). Continuous shared control stabilizes reach and grasping with brain-machine interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53(6), pp. 1164-1173.

• Gutierrez R., Carmena J.M., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Simon S.A. (2006). Temporal specific ensembles of rat orbitofrontal neurons represent the drinking of liquid rewards. Journal of Neurophysiology 95, pp. 119-133.

• Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., Henriquez C.S., and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2005). Stable ensemble performance with single neuron variability during reaching movements in primates. Journal of Neuroscience 25(46):10712-10716.

• Lebedev M.A., Carmena J.M., O’Doherty J.E., Zacksenhouse M., Henriquez C.S., Principe J.C., and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2005). Cortical ensemble adaptation to represent velocity of an artificial actuator controlled by a brain-machine interface. Journal of Neuroscience 25(19):4681:4693.

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2004). Narrowband tracking using a biomimetic sonarhead. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 46(4), pp. 247-259.
  

• Patil P.G., Carmena J.M., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Turner D.A. (2004). Ensembles of human subcortical neurons as a source of motor control signals for a brain-machine interface. Neurosurgery 55(1), pp. 27-38.

• Sanchez J.C., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., Nicolelis M.A.L., Harris J.G., and Principe J.C. (2004). Ascertaining the importance of neurons to develop better brain-machine interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 51(6), pp. 943-953.

• Bossetti C.A., Carmena J.M., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Wolf P.D. (2004).  Transmission latencies in a telemetry-linked brain-machine interface. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 51(6), pp. 919-924.

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2004). The use of doppler in sonar-based mobile robot navigation: inspirations from biology. Information Sciences 161(1-2), pp. 71-94.

• Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., Crist R.E., O’Doherty J.E., Santucci D.M., Dimitrov D.F., Patil P.G., Henriquez C.S. and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2003). Learning to control a brain-machine interface for reaching and grasping by primates. PLoS Biology 1(2), pp. 193-208.

• Nicolelis M.A.L., Dimitrov D., Carmena J.M., Crist R.E., Lehew G., Kralik J., and Wise S.P. (2003). Chronic, multi site, multi electrode recordings in macaque monkeys. PNAS, 100(19), pp. 11041-11046.

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2002). Estimating doppler-shift using bat-inspired cochlear filterbank models: A comparison of methods for echoes from single and multiple reflectors. Adaptive Behavior. 9(3–4), pp.241–261.

• Carmena J.M., Kämpchen N., Kim D., and Hallam J.C.T.  (2001). Artificial ears for a biomimetic sonarhead: from multiple reflectors to surfaces.  Artificial Life, 7(2), pp.147–169.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Heliot R., Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M.  (2009). Modeling and experimental validation of the learning process during closed-loop BMI operation. International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Hebei (China). (to appear)

• Heliot R. and Carmena J.M. (2009). A model of motor learning in brain-machine interfaces: predicting neural tuning changes. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, San Atnonio TX.  (to appear)

• Jimenez J., Heliot R. and Carmena J.M. (2009). Learning to use a brain-machine interface: model, simulation and analysis. Proceedings of EMBC´09, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN. (to appear)

• Venkatraman S., Patten C. and Carmena J.M. (2009). Exploiting the 1/f structure of neural signals for the design of integrated neural amplifiers. Proceedings of EMBC´09, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN. (to appear)

• Venkatraman S., Hendricks J., Richardson-Burns S., Jan E., Martin D.C., Carmena J.M. (2009). PEDOT coated Microelectrode Arrays for Chronic Neural Recording and Stimulation. 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. Antalya (Turkey).

• Ranade G.V., Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M. (2009). LFP beta power predicts cursor stationarity in BMI task. 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. Antalya (Turkey).

• Heliot R., Orsborn A., and Carmena J.M. Stiffness control of 2-DOF exoskeleton for brain-machine interfaces. 2nd IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale (AZ), Ocotber 2008.

• Venkatraman S., Long J.D., Pister K.S.J., Carmena J.M. (2007). Wireless inertial sensors for monitoring animal behavior. Proceedings of EMBC´07, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon (France).

• Kim S.P., Carmena J.M., Nicolelis M.A.L., and Principe J.C. (2005). Multiresolution representations and data mining of neural spikes for brain-machine interfaces. Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, VA (USA).

• Rao Y.N., Kim S.P., Sanchez J.C., Erdogomus D., Principe J.C., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2005). Learning mappings in BMIs with echo state networks. Proc. of the IEEE-ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA (USA).

• Sanchez J.C., Principe J.C., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A., and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2004). Simultaneous predictions of four kinematic variables for a BMI using a single recurrent neural network. 26th Int. Conf. of the IEEE-EMBS, San Francisco, CA (USA).

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2002). Narrowband 3D tracking using a biomimetic sonarhead. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Lausanne (Switzerland).

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001). A comparison of methods for estimating Doppler shift using cochlear filterbank models. European workshop on advanced mobile robots (EUROBOT), pp. 9-16, Lund (Sweden).

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001). Exploiting the physics: Doppler-based navigation with a bat-inspired mobile robot. Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, pp. 467-476, Tolouse (France).

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001). A Doppler-based motion controller for an echolocating mobile robot, Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots. Technical Report Series, Dept. of Computer Science, ManchesterUniversity, Manchester (UK). ISSN 1361 6161.

• Peremans H., Müller R., Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2000). A biomimetic platform to study perception in bats. Proceedings of SPIE: Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotics Systems III, Vol 4196, pp. 168-179, Boston, MA (USA).

• Carmena J.M., Kim D., and Hallam J.C.T. (2000). Designing artificial ears for animat echolocation. From Animals to Animats 6. pp.73-80, J-A. Meyer et al. (Eds.), MIT Press.

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2000). Estimating Doppler shift with a coarse cochlear filterbank. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vol 1, pp. 221-226, Takamatsu (Japan).

• Kim D., Carmena J.M., and Hallam J.C.T. (2000). Towards an artificial pinna for a narrow band biomimetic sonarhead. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1801, pp. 113-122, Miller et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag.

• Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (1999). Improving performance in a multi-robot task through minimal communication. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, pp. 329-337, Coimbra (Portugal).

Recent Abstracts

• Carmena J.M., Ranade G., and Ganguly K. (2008) Ensemble representation of movement parameters in motor cortex during center-out reaches with the ipsilateral arm. 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
  

• Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M. (2008) Performance variability with linear filters for brain-machine interfaces. 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.

• Torres E.B., Ganguly K., Jose J.V. and Carmena J.M. (2008) MI inhibitory role across hemispheres in self- vs. instructed initiation of reaches during force-field learning. 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.

• Venkatraman S., Long J.D. and Carmena J.M. (2007). Electrochemical constraints for intracortical microstimulation used in neuroprosthetic applications. 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (CA).

• Long J.D., Venkatraman S. and Carmena J.M. (2007). A platform for studying the effects of plasticity upon the learning of intracortical microstimulation induced percepts. 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (CA).

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