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Effect of Extrinsic Reward on Motor Plasticity during Skill Learning

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis

Human motor skill acquisition is improved by performance feedback, and coupling such feedback with extrinsic reward (such as money) can enhance skill learning. However, the neurophysiology underlying such behavioral effect is unclear. To bridge this gap, w ...

2025

Unraveling behavior and cortical signals to guide the development of soft neuroprostheses for auditory restoration and spreading depolarization

Emilie Cornelia Maria Revol

Neuroprostheses have been used clinically for decades, to help restore or preserve brain functions, when pharmaceutical treatments are inefficient. Although great progress in the field has been made over the years to interface with the nervous system, surf ...

EPFL2024

Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception

Alexander Mathis, Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Axel Bisi

Proprioception tells the brain the state of the body based on distributed sensory neurons. Yet, the principles that govern proprioceptive processing are poorly understood. Here, we employ a task -driven modeling approach to investigate the neural code of p ...

Cell Press2024

Enhancement of brain atlases with region-specific coordinate systems: flatmaps and barrel column annotations

Felix Schürmann, Michael Reimann, Armando Romani, Huanxiang Lu, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska

Digital brain atlases define a hierarchy of brain regions and their locations in three-dimensional space. They provide a standard coordinate system in which diverse datasets can be integrated for visualization and analysis. They also enable building of dat ...

2024

Modeling and Simulation of Neocortical Micro- and Mesocircuitry. Part I: Anatomy

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Lida Kanari, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Alexis Arnaudon, Ying Shi, András Ecker, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Armando Romani, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Judit Planas Carbonell, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira, Liesbeth Maria L Vanherpe, Huanxiang Lu, Daniela Egas Santander, James Bryden Isbister, Ran Levi, Benoît Jean-Albert Coste, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Joni Henrikki Herttuainen, Christoph Pokorny, Vishal Sood, Thomas Brice Delemontex, Adrien Michel Achille Devresse, Nicolas René Jean Ninin, Alexander Dietz, Hugo Thabo Dictus, Gianluca Ficarelli

The function of the neocortex is fundamentally determined by its repeating microcircuit motif, but also by its rich, hierarchical, interregional structure with a highly specific laminar architecture. The last decade has seen the emergence of extensive new ...

2024

Nissl_4, Raw images for Machine learning for histological annotation and quantification of cortical layers

Julie Meystre

This dataset contains some images (TIFF image data) of brain juvenile rats Wistar Han (P14) scanned immunostained slides by using an automated slide scanner (Olympus, VS120-L100, GER) equipped with a UPLSAPO 20x/0.75 air objective (Olympus, GER) and a Pi ...

Zenodo2024

Development and evaluation of a near-infrared photovoltaic implant for wireless neural stimulation

Danashi Imani Medagoda

Neural implants have demonstrated efficacy in implementing therapies for neurological disorders but their rigid design often leads to complications due to the mechanical mismatch with soft neural tissue. Current research focuses on developing flexible elec ...

EPFL2024

Noninvasive deep brain stimulation to modulate human behavior by means of transcranial temporal interference electrical stimulation

Elena Beanato

All functions we use in our everyday life depend on a complex interplay between both cortical and subcortical brain areas, communicating in between each others. When a region is affected by either an accident, aging or neurodegenerative diseases, the whole ...

EPFL2023

Soft bioelectronic technologies for selective and multimodal peripheral nerve interfaces

Valentina Marie Paggi

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) regulates the exchange of sensory information and motor commands between the body and the central nervous system. Further, through the autonomic nervous system, the PNS plays a pivotal role in controlling vital physiolog ...

EPFL2023

Emotional sounds in space: asymmetrical representation within early-stage auditory areas

Stephanie Clarke, Sandra Elisabete Monney

Evidence from behavioral studies suggests that the spatial origin of sounds may influence the perception of emotional valence. Using 7T fMRI we have investigated the impact of the categories of sound (vocalizations; non-vocalizations), emotional valence (p ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Hand and face somatotopy shown using MRI-safe vibrotactile stimulation with a novel soft pneumatic actuator (SPA)-skin interface

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar

The exact somatotopy of the human facial representation in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) remains de-bated. One reason that progress has been hampered is due to the methodological challenge of how to apply automated vibrotactile stimuli to face area ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Human threat circuits: Threats of pain, aggressive conspecific, and predator elicit distinct BOLD activations in the amygdala and hypothalamus

Georg Michael Joachim Starke

IntroductionThreat processing, enabled by threat circuits, is supported by a remarkably conserved neural architecture across mammals. Threatening stimuli relevant for most species include the threat of being attacked by a predator or an aggressive conspeci ...

2023

Modulation of brain signals during sensorimotor and imaging tasks in a person with an implanted upper-limb prosthesis following amputation of the left hand Analysis of amputee's sensory-motor activity

Silvestro Micera, Fabrizio Vecchio

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2023

Does anodal cerebellar tDCS boost transfer of after-effects from throwing to pointing during prism adaptation?

Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Prism Adaptation (PA) is a useful method to study the mechanisms of sensorimotor adaptation. After-effects following adaptation to the prismatic deviation constitute the probe that adaptive mechanisms occurred, and current evidence suggests an involvement ...

Frontiers Media2022

Depotentiation of associative plasticity is intact in Parkinson's disease with mild dyskinesia

Traian Popa

Objective: Depotentiation of homosynaptic plasticity of the primary motor cortex (M1) is impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) who have developed dyskinesias. In this exploratory study, we tested whether this holds true for heterosynaptic plas ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Large-depth three-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging of cortical microvasculature on nonhuman primates with bright ATE probe In vivo

Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah

Multiphoton microscopy has been a powerful tool in brain research, three-photon fluorescence microscopy is increasingly becoming an emerging technique for neurological research of the cortex in depth. Nonhuman primates play important roles in the study of ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Abnormal brain oxygen homeostasis in an animal model of liver disease

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic, Katarzyna Pierzchala

Background & Aims: Increased plasma ammonia concentration and consequent disruption of brain energy metabolism could underpin the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Brain energy homeostasis relies on effective maintenance of brain oxygenation, an ...

ELSEVIER2022

Neuromodulation of neocortical microcircuitry: a multi-scale framework to model the effects of cholinergic release

Cristina Colangelo

Neuromodulation of neocortical microcircuits is one of the most fascinating and mysterious aspects of brain physiology. Despite over a century of research, the neuroscientific community has yet to uncover the fundamental biological organizing principles un ...

EPFL2022

Spinal Cord fMRI: A New Window into the Central Nervous System

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

With the brain, the spinal cord forms the central nervous system. Initially considered a passive relay between the brain and the periphery, the spinal cord is now recognized as being active and plastic. Yet, it remains largely overlooked by the human neuro ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2022

Enhancing our understanding of human fine manipulation skills and advancing robot dexterity in grasping

Kunpeng Yao

From surgery to watchmaking, fine-manipulation skills highly rely on the dexterity afforded by both hands. Coordination is key to human dexterity. Specifically, humans need not only to govern the abundant intrinsic degrees of freedom (DOFs) to allocate con ...

EPFL2022