Daniel Bacher

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the feasibility for people with tetraplegia, years after injury to the central nervous system, to recreate useful multidimensional control of complex devices directly from a small sample of neural signals.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that signal nonstationarity in an intracortical BCI can be mitigated automatically in software, enabling long periods (hours to days) of self-paced point-and-click typing by people with tetraplegia, without degradation in neural control.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the first use of an intracortical brain–computer interface for neural point-and-click communication by an individual with incomplete locked-in syndrome.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates stable repeated use of an intracortical brain-computer interface by people with tetraplegia over up to four and a half months, and indicates that people with locked-in syndrome could soon use a slow but reliable LFP-based BCI for everyday communication without ongoing intervention from a technician or caregiver.

TL;DR: Whether CL calibration creates a better decoder than OL calibration even when all other factors that might influence performance are held constant is tested, which may enable robust neural control without needing to pause ongoing, practical use of BCIs.