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Horch, Kenneth W.; Normann, Richard A. | Noble metal penetrating cortical stimulating electrode array: preliminary results | Electrical stimulation of the visual cortex causes subjects to see spots of light (phosphenes) in their visual fields. We have developed arrays of penetrating electrodes which may from the basis of a visual prosthesis centered around electrical stimulation of the visual cortex. These arrays have bee... | Visual prosthesis | 1988 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Normann, Richard A. | Simulation of a phosphene field based visual prosthesis | A visual prosthesis for the blind based upon electrical stimulation of the visual cortex requires the development of an array of electrodes. To establish design specifications for such an electrode array, we have conducted psychophysical experiments with normally sighted subjects wearing a portable... | Visual prosthesis; Phosphene simulator | 1990 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Maynard, Edwin M. | Neural interface for a cortical vision prosthesis | The development of a cortically based vision prosthesis has been hampered by a lack of basic experiments on phosphene psychophysics. This basic research has been hampered by the lack of a means to safely stimulate large numbers of cortical neurons. Recently, a number of laboratories have developed a... | Neuroprosthetics; Artificial Vision; Electrode Arrays; Multielectrode Recordings; Biocompatibility | 1999 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Visual Neuroprosthetics: Functional Vision for the Blind | Resent progress in materials and microfabrication technologies have allowed researchers to reconsider the prospect of providing a useful visual sense to the profoundly blind. This will be accomplished by electrically stimulating their visual systems via an array of implanted microelectrodes. T... | Visual Neuroprosthetics; Vision; Blindness | 1995-01 |
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Angelucci, Alessandra; Lund, Jennifer S. | Circuits for local and global signal integration in primary visual cortex | Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long-distance integration of visual signals within V1, well beyond the classical receptive field (cRF) of single neurons. To identif... | Primary Visual Cortex; Extrastriate Cortex; Feed-back Connections; Lateral Connections; SUrround Modulation; Macaque | 2002-10-01 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Horch, Kenneth W.; Cha, Kichul | Mobility performance with a pixelized vision system | A visual prosthesis, based on electrical stimulation of the visual cortex, has been suggested as a means for partially restoring functional vision in the blind. The prosthesis would create a pixelized visual sense consisting of punctate spots of light (phosphenes). The present study investigated the... | Visual Prosthesis; Mobility; Phosphene Simulator | 1992 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Functional reorganization of primary visual cortex induced by electrical stimulation in the cat. | Compared to the high degree of plasticity observed in a juvenile, mature sensory cortices have long been held to be immutable but, recently, researchers have suggested some plasticity persists in the mature cortex. Cortical reorganization has particular saliency to the development of a cortically ba... | Cat; Electrophysiology; Phosphene; Plasticity; Receptive Field; Striate Cortex | 2005 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Campbell, Patrick K.; Jones, Kelly E.; Huber, Robert J.; Horch, Kenneth W. | Silicon-based, three-dimensional neural interface: manufacturing processes for an intracortical electrode array | A method has been developed for the manufacture of a "three-dimensional" electrode array geometry for chronic intracortical stimulation. This silicon based array consists of a 4.2 x 4.2 x 0.12 mm thick monocrystalline substrate, from which project 100 conductive, silicon needles sharpened to facilit... | Electric Stimulation; Electrodes, Implanted; Sensory Cortex; Intracortical Electrode Array | 1991 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Maynard, Edwin M. | Neuronal interactions improve cortical population coding of movement direction | Interactions among groups of neurons in primary motor cortex (MI) may convey information about motor behavior. We investigated the information carried by interactions in MI of macaque monkeys using a novel multielectrode array to record simultaneously from 12-16 neurons during an arm-reaching task. ... | Motor Cortex; Monkey; Population Coding; Movement | 1999 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Shah, Maulik R. | Study of printed spiral coils for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applications | We have explored the use of printed spiral coils (PSC's) for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applications. We fabricated two-dimensional PSC's on a thin (25 microns) polyimide substrate using copper (35 microns) as a conducting material. All the coils had a fixed inner diameter of 1.0 cm. We ... | Blindness; Neuroprosthesis; Transcranial Telemetry System; Prosthesis Design | 1998 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Jones, Kelly E. | Advanced demultiplexing system for physiological stimulation | A CMOS very large scale integration (VLSI) chip has been designed and built to implement a scheme developed for multiplexing/demultiplexing the signals required to operate an intracortical stimulating electrode array. Because the use of radio telemetry in a proposed system utilizing this chip may im... | Electrode Array; Stimulation; Telemetry; Microelectrodes; Transistors | 1997 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Statistical encoding model for a primary motor cortical brain-computer interface | A number of studies of the motor system suggest that the majority of primary motor cortical neurons represent simple movement-related kinematic and dynamic quantities in their time-varying activity patterns. An example of such an encoding relationship is the cosine tuning of firing rate with respect... | Discrete Distribution; LN Model; Neural Decoding; Neuroprosthetics; Sequential Monte-Carlo Filter | 2005 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Campbell, Patrick K.; Jones, Kelly E. | 100 electrode intracortical array: structural variability | A technique has been developed for fabricating three dimensional "hair brush" electrode arrays from monocrystalline silicon blocks. Arrays consist of a square pattern of 100 penetrating electrodes, with 400 microns interelectrode spacing. Each electrode is 1.5mm in length and tapers from about 100 m... | Microelectrode arrays; Stimulation; Micromachining | 1990 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Shoham, Shy | Encoding mechanisms for sensory neurons studied with a multielectrode array in the cat dorsal root ganglion | Recent advances in microelectrode array technology now permit a direct examination of the way populations of sensory neurons encode information about a limb's position in space. To address this issue, we recorded nerve impulses from about 100 single units simultaneously in the L6 and L7 dorsal root ... | Sensory; Encoding; Multielectrode; Dorsal Root Ganglion; Cutaneour; Muscle | 2004 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Dhillon, Gurpreet S. | Direct neural sensory feedback and control of a prosthetic arm | Evidence indicates that user acceptance of modern artificial limbs by amputees would be significantly enhanced by a system that provides appropriate, graded, distally referred sensations of touch and joint movement, and that the functionality of limb prostheses would be improved by a more natural co... | Peripheral Nerve Implant; Prosthetic Limb Control; Sensory Feedback | 2005-12 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Differential activation of nerve fibers with magnetic stimulation in humans | Earlier observations in our lab had indicated that large, time-varying magnetic fields could elicit action potentials that travel in only one direction in at least some of the myelinated axons in peripheral nerves. The objective of this study was to collect quantitative evidence for magnetically in... | Magnetic stimulation; Peripheral nerve; Electromyographic potential; Somatosensory potential | 2006 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Oscillations in rod and horizontal cell membrane potential: evidence for feed-back to rods in the vertebrate retina | 1. Rods and horizontal cells were studied with intracellular recordings in the retina of the toad, Bufo marinus; 161 cells were from the eyecup preparation and thirty were from the isolated perfused retina. 2. Of these cells, 39% exhibited either transient or sustained oscillations of membrane poten... | Retina; Photoreceptors; Toads; Adaptation, Ocular | 1976 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Branner, Almut | Long-term stimulation and recording with a penetrating microelectrode array in cat sciatic nerve | We studied the consequences of long-term implantation of a penetrating microelectrode array in peripheral nerve over the time course of 4-6 mo. Electrode arrays without lead wires were implanted to test the ability of different containment systems to protect the array and nerve during contractions o... | Cats; Microelectrodes; Prosthesis Implantation; Sciatic Nerve | 2004 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Microfabricated cylindrical multielectrodes for neural stimulation | The effects of spinal cord injuries are likely to be ameliorated with the help of functional electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, a technique that may benefit from a new style of electrode: the cylindrical multielectrode. This paper describes the specifications for, fabrication techniques for... | Cylindrical multielectrode; Depth electrodes; Impedance testing; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Microstimulation; Impedance testing; Neural prosthesis | 2006-02 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Proposed specifications for a lumbar spinal cord electrode array for control of lower extremities in paraplegia | The goal of the study was to provide specifications for a stimulating electrode array to be implanted in the lumbosacral spinal cord as part of a functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) system for control of lower extremity muscles in paralyzed individuals. Dual channel stimulation of the qua... | Stimulating electrode array; FNS; Functional neuromuscular stimulation | 1997 |