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SUMMARY:CNP Seminar // Sliman Bensmaia - Biological and bionic hands: Natu
 ral neural coding and artificial perception
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DESCRIPTION:Sliman Bensmaia\nAbstract: Our ability to manipulate objects d
 exterously relies fundamentally on sensory signals originating from the ha
 nd. To restore motor function with upper-limb neuroprostheses requires tha
 t somatosensory feedback be provided to the amputee or tetraplegic patient
 . Given the complexity of state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs\, and thus the
  huge state-space they can traverse\, it is desirable to minimize the need
  for the user to learn associations between events impinging upon the limb
  and arbitrary sensations. With this in mind\, we seek to develop approach
 es to intuitively convey sensory information that is critical for object m
 anipulation through electrical activation of sensory neurons in the nerves
  or in the somatosensory cortex. To this end\, we leverage our understandi
 ng of natural neural coding to construct encoding algorithms for artificia
 l touch.\n\nBio: Sliman Bensmaia is the James and Karen Frank Family Pr
 ofessor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and in the Com
 mittee on Computational Neuroscience. The main objective of his research i
 s to discover how sensory information is encoded in the activity of neuron
 s along the somatosensory neuraxis\, spanning the senses of touch and prop
 rioception\, in primates. To this end\, his team records neuronal response
 s\, measures the elicited percepts\, and develops mathematical models to l
 ink neuronal representations to behavior. Bensmaia's team is also working
  towards restoring the sense of touch in bionic hands for amputees\, th
 rough electrical interfaces with the nerves\, or for people with tetrapleg
 ia\, through electrical interfaces with the peripheral and central nervous
  systems. A widely published author\, Bensmaia has spoken at dozens of i
 nvited talks and symposia and holds five patents. He is a member of the So
 ciety for Neuroscience\, the American Physiological Society\, and the Inst
 itute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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