Stochastic Facilitation of Artificial Tactile Sensation in Primates

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¹Department of Biomedical Engineering,
²Center for Neuroengineering,
³Department of Neurobiology, and
⁴Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, and
⁵Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, 59066-060 Natal, Brazil

J.E. O'Doherty's present address: Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Author contributions: L.E.M., M.A.L., J.E.O., and M.A.L.N. designed research; L.E.M. and M.A.L. performed research; L.E.M., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. analyzed data; L.E.M., M.A.L., and M.A.L.N. wrote the paper.

J.E. O'Doherty's present address: Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

This work was supported by NIH Grants DP1OD006798 and RC1HD063390 to M.A.L.N. The document is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the Office of the Director or NIH. We are grateful to Gary Lehew and Jim Meloy for engineering the experimental setup and the multielectrode arrays, Dragan Dimitrov and Laura Oliveira for conducting neural surgery, Solaiman Shokur for avatar design, Zheng Li for assistance in the decoding algorithm, Tamara Phillips for experimental support, and Susan Halkiotis for administrative assistance and editing the manuscript.
The authors declare no financial conflicts of interest.
Correspondence should be addressed to Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, Department of Neurobiology, Box 3209, Room 327E, Bryan Research Building Duke University Medical Center, 101 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27100. nicoleli{at}neuro.duke.edu

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