Search Results - "Hessburg, John P."

Normalization by valence and motivational intensity in the sensorimotor cortices (PMd, M1, and S1) by Yao, Zhao, Hessburg, John P., Francis, Joseph Thachil

“…Our brain’s ability to represent vast amounts of information, such as continuous ranges of reward spanning orders of magnitude, with limited dynamic range…”
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Paradigm Shift in Sensorimotor Control Research and Brain Machine Interface Control: The Influence of Context on Sensorimotor Representations by Zhao, Yao, Hessburg, John P, Asok Kumar, Jaganth Nivas, Francis, Joseph T

“…Neural activity in the primary motor cortex (M1) is known to correlate with movement related variables including kinematics and dynamics. Our recent work,…”
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Reward Expectation Modulates Local Field Potentials, Spiking Activity and Spike-Field Coherence in the Primary Motor Cortex by An, Junmo, Yadav, Taruna, Hessburg, John P, Francis, Joseph T

“…Reward modulation (M1) could be exploited in developing an autonomously updating brain-computer interface (BCI) based on a reinforcement learning (RL)…”
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Primate Motor Cortical Activity Displays Hallmarks of a Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning Process by Tarigoppula, Venkata S Aditya, Choi, John S, Hessburg, John P, McNiel, David B, Marsh, Brandi T, Francis, Joseph Thachil

“…Reinforcement learning (RL) models comprehensively describe neural dynamics of multiple brain regions at several spatiotemporal scales during…”
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Reward value is encoded in primary somatosensory cortex and can be decoded from neural activity during performance of a psychophysical task by McNiel, David B., Choi, John S., Hessburg, John P., Francis, Joseph T.

“…Encoding of reward valence has been shown in various brain regions, including deep structures such as the substantia nigra as well as cortical structures such…”
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An Assisted Obstetric Delivery Device for Resource-Limited Settings by Hessburg, John P, Murthy, Prithvi, Patel, Keval D., Ostrowski, Daniel P., Sienko, Kathleen H

“…Pregnancy related mortalities account for the death of 350,000 women annually, and 99% of these mortalities occur in developing countries. Obstructed labor is…”
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