A behavioral paradigm for cortical control of a robotic actuator by freely moving rats in a one-dimensional two-target reaching task.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience methods
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Controlling the trajectory of a neuroprosthesis to reach distant targets is a commonly used brain-machine interface (BMI) task in primates and has not been available for rodents yet.

Authors

  • Syed Muhammad Talha Zaidi
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Samet Kocatürk
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Tunçer Baykaş
    Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Mehmet Kocatürk
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey; Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: mkocaturk@medipol.edu.tr.