Augmenting the Senses: Animal Models for Real-Time Sensory Prosthetics
Material below summarizes the article Embedding a Panoramic Representation of Infrared Light in the Adult Rat Somatosensory Cortex Through a Sensory Neuroprosthesis, published on February 24, 2016, in JNeurosci and authored by Konstantin Hartmann, Eric E. Thomson, Ivan Zea, Richy Yun, Peter Mullen, Jay Canarick, Albert Huh, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis.
Sensory prosthetic systems, such as cochlear implants, have helped thousands of people with deficits in hearing. Visual prosthetic devices, such as retinal chips, hold great promise for the restoration of vision to those with retinal injury or disease. One key goal for the future is to bypass the peripheral nervous system altogether and build high-capacity prosthetic devices that directly connect to the cerebral cortex.
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