Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos

TL;DR: In this paper, the activity from a few motor cortex neurons can be decoded into a signal that a monkey is able to use immediately to move a computer cursor to any new position in its workspace.

TL;DR: Widespread coupling of oscillatory signals is consistent with the concept that temporal coding processes operate in motor cortex, but because the relationship between neuronal discharge and the appearance of fast oscillations may be altered by behavioral condition, they must reflect a global process active in conjunction with motor planning or preparatory functions.

TL;DR: It is found that information about the visual target to be reached was encoded in terms of both latency and amplitude of evoked waves at a time when the field phase-locked with respect to the target onset.

TL;DR: These findings demonstrate that MI carries information about evolving hand trajectory during visually guided pursuit tracking, including information about arm position both during and after its specification, as well as confirming that random, 2-D hand trajectories can be reconstructed from the firing of small ensembles of randomly selected neurons within the MI arm area.

TL;DR: The potential for neural interface research to enhance basic scientific understanding of brain function by offering unique insights in neural coding and representation, plasticity, brain-behavior relations, and the neurobiology of disease is addressed.