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Sliman Bensmaia

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A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus

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By Darrel R. Deo, Elizaveta Okorokova, Anna Pritchard, Nick Hahn, Nicholas S. Card, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Justin J. Jude, Eun Young Choi, Deqiang Qiu, Yuguang Meng, Maitreyee Wairagkar, Claire Nicolas, Foram Kamdar, Carrina Iacobacci, Alexander Acosta, Leigh R Hochberg, Sydney S. Cash, Ziv M. Williams, Daniel Rubin Verified, David M Brandman, Sergey D. Stavisky, Nicholas AuYong, Chethan Pandarinath, Sliman Bensmaia, Jaimie M Henderson, Francis R Willett, Thomas Hosman
| Nature Verified
Abstract Understanding how the body is represented in the motor cortex is key to understanding how the brain controls movement. Although the motor cortex has been mapped in animal models at a fine scale1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, characterization in humans remains primarily limited to low-resolution recording11,12,13,14,15,16 and stimulation techniques17,18,19,20.
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Evolution of object identity information in sensorimotor cortex throughout grasp - Nature Communications

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By Yuke Yan, Anton R. Sobinov, James Goodman, Elizaveta Okorokova, Lee Miller, Sliman Bensmaia
| Nature Verified
Abstract Reaching for and grasping an object seems a continuous process, yet somatosensory signals undergo dramatic state changes near the time of object contact. Tactile afferents start conveying contact forces, while on-going proprioceptive signals are altered as hand shape stops changing. How cortex maintains object identity in the presence of changing, multi-modal signals remains unknown.
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Intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex is sufficient to induce perceptual biases

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By Natalya Shelchkova, Taylor G. Hobbs, Sliman Bensmaia, Robert Gaunt
| medRxiv
Abstract Time-order error, a psychophysical phenomenon in which the duration in between successive stimuli alters perception, has been studied for decades by neuroscientists and psychologists. To date, however, the locus of these effects is unknown. We use intracortical microstimulation of somatosensory cortex in humans as a tool to bypass initial stages of processing and restrict the possible locations that signals could be modified.
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