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Triggering social interactions: chimpanzees respond to imitation by a humanoid robot and request responses from it

Even the most rudimentary social cues may evoke affiliative responses in humans and promote socialcommunication and cohesion. The present work tested whether such cues of an agent may also promotecommunicative interactions in a nonhuman primate species, by ...

Springer Verlag2014

Correlation between muscular and nerve signals responsible for hand grasping in non-human primates

Frédéric Pierre Gérald Michoud

Neuroprosthetic devices that interface with the nervous system to restore functional motor activity offer a viable alternative to nerve regeneration, especially in proximal nerve injuries like brachial plexus injuries where muscle atrophy may set in before ...

IEEE2014

Rich Locomotion Skills with the Oncilla Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Massimo Vespignani, Alexander Spröwitz, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Peter Eckert, Alexandre Tuleu

We are motivated to better understand how adaptive locomotion (rough terrain locomotion, turning, gait transition, etc) can be realized using a quadrupedal platform with constrained resources. These constraints include computational power limitation, no ac ...

2014

Off-the-shelf human decellularized tissue-engineered heart valves in a non-human primate model

Peter Modregger, Marco Stampanoni, Chad Brokopp

Heart valve tissue engineering based on decellularized xenogenic or allogenic starter matrices has shown promising first clinical results. However, the availability of healthy homologous donor valves is limited and xenogenic materials are associated with i ...

Elsevier2013

Tonotopic organization in monkey and human auditory cortex using phase-encoded functional MRI

Melissa Saenz, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Gaëlle Chapuis

Tonotopic organization is the main topographic feature of the primary auditory cortex. Importantly, tonotopy allows to define borders of cortical areas as reversals of the frequency gradient (i.e the spatial derivative of the preferred frequency map). Very ...

2013

Brain-machine interface control using broadband spectral power from local field potentials

Michael Christoph Gastpar

Recent progress in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) has shown tremendous improvements in task complexity and degree of control. In particular, closed-loop decoder adaptation (CLDA) has emerged as an effective paradigm for both improving and maintaining the ...

IEEE2013

Animal Models of Neurologic Disorders: A Nonhuman Primate Model of Spinal Cord Injury

Grégoire Courtine

Primates are an important and unique animal resource. We have developed a nonhuman primate model of spinal cord injury (SCI) to expand our knowledge of normal primate motor function, to assess the impact of disease and injury on sensory and motor function, ...

2012

Methods for Functional Assessment After C7 Spinal Cord Hemisection in the Rhesus Monkey

Grégoire Courtine

Background. Reliable outcome measures are essential for preclinical modeling of spinal cord injury (SCI) in primates. Measures need to be sensitive to both increases and decreases in function in order to demonstrate potential positive or negative effects o ...

2012

A mechatronic platform for behavioral analysis on nonhuman primates

Massimo Vespignani

In this work we present a new mechatronic platform for measuring behavior of nonhuman primates, allowing high reprogrammability and providing several possibilities of interactions. The platform is the result of a multidisciplinary design process, which has ...

2012

Use of viral vectors to create animal models for Parkinson's disease

Patrick Aebischer, Karin Irmgard Löw

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. While sporadic in the majority of cases, PD-linked dominant mutations in the α-synuclein and LRRK-2 genes, and recess ...

Elsevier2012

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