Publications

Journal Articles

  • Neely R.M.*, Koralek A.C.*, Athalye V.R., Costa R.M.* and Carmena J.M.* (2018) Volitional modulation of primary visual cortex activity requires the basal ganglia. Neuron (in press).
  • Athalye V.R.*, Santos F.J.*, Carmena J.M.* and Costa R.M.* (2018) Evidence for a neural law of effect. Science (in press).
  • Muller R., Le H.-P., Li W., Ledochowitsch P., Gambini S., Bjorninen T., Koralek A., Carmena J.M., Maharbiz M.M. and Rabaey J.M. (2015) A minimally invasive 64-channel wireless uECoG implant. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 50(1), pp. 344-359. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2014.2364824.


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • Athalye V., Ganguly K., Costa R.M. and Carmena J.M. (2016) Emergence of coordinated neural dynamics supports neuroprosthetic skill learning. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • Khanna P., Athalye V., Gowda S., Costa R.M. and Carmena J.M. (2016) Modeling the distinct sources of variability during learning of a neuroprosthetic task. Proceedings of EMBC«16, 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Orlando (FL).
  • Khanna P., Stanslaski S., Xiao Y., Ahrens T., Bourget D., Swann N., Starr P., Carmena J.M. and Denison T. (2015) Enabling closed-loop neurostimulation research with downloadable firmware upgrades. Proceedings of the IEEE BioCAS 2015 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta (GA).
  • Seo D.J., Tang H-Y., Carmena J.M., Rabaey J.M., Alon E., Boser B. and Maharbiz M.M. (2015) Ultrasonic beamforming system for interrogating multiple implantable motes. Proceedings of EMBC«15, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milan (Italy).
  • Shanechi M.M., Orsborn A., Moorman H., Gowda S., Carmena J.M. (2014) High-performance brain-machine interface enabled by an adaptive optimal feedback-controlled point process decoder. Proceedings of EMBC«14, 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago (IL). 6493-6. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945115.
  • Bertrand A., Seo D., Maksimovic F., Carmena J.M., Maharbiz M.M., Alon E., Rabaey JM. (2014) Beamforming approaches for untethered, ultrasonic neural dust motes for cortical recording: a simulation study. Proceedings of EMBC«14, 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago (IL). 2625-8. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944161.
  • Chang Y-H., Chen M., Shanechi M., Carmena J.M. and Tomlin C.J. (2014) A Design of Neural Decoder by Reducing Discrepancy between Manual Control (MC) and Brain Control (BC). 13th European Control Conference (ECC), Strasbourg, France.
  • Lu J.*, Chen M.*, Chang Y.-H.*, Tomizuka M., Carmena J.M. and Tomlin C.J. (2014) Design of a neural decoder by sensory prediction and error correction, in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6999-7004, Los Angeles (CA).
  • Moradi E., Amendola S., Bjšrninen T., SydŠnheimo L., Ukkonen L., Carmena J.M. and Rabaey J.M. (2014) Wireless testing of ink-jet printed mm-size gold implant antennas for brain-machine interfaces. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis (TN).
  • Yeager D., Biederman W., Narevsky N., Leverett J., Neely R., Carmena J.M., Alon E. and Rabaey J.M. (2014) A 4.78mm2 fully-integrated neuromodulation SoC combining 64 acquisition channels with digital compression and simultaneous dual stimulation. VLSI Circuits Simposium, Honolulu (HI).
  • Muller R., Le H.-P., Li W., Ledochowitsch P., Gambini S., Bjšrninen T., Koralek A., Carmena J.M., Maharbiz M.M., Alon E. and Rabaey J.M. (2014) A miniaturized 64-channel, 225µW wireless electrocorticographic neural sensor. IEEE international Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco (CA).
  • Chang Y.H., Chen M., Overduin S.S., Gowda S., Carmena J.M. and Tomlin C.J. (2013) Low-rank representation of neural activity and detection of submovements. Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence (Italy).
  • Shanechi M. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Optimal feedback-controlled point process decoder for adaptation and assisted training in brain-machine interfaces. Proceedings of the 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. San Diego (CA).
  • Khanna P., Kelvin S. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Volitional phase control of neural oscillations using a brain-machine interface. Proceedings of the 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. San Diego (CA).
  • Orsborn A.L., Kelvin S., Dangi S. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Comparison of neural activity during closed-loop control of spike or LFP-based brain-machine interfaces. Proceedings of the 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. San Diego (CA).
  • Orsborn A.L. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Neural and decoder adaptation in BMI reduces interference from native motor networks. Proceedings of the Translational and Computational Motor Control (TCMC) conference, San Diego (CA).
  • Shanechi M., Orsborn A.L., Gowda S. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Proficient BMI control enabled by closed-loop adaptation of an optimal feedback-controlled point process decoder. Proceedings of the Translational and Computational Motor Control (TCMC) conference, San Diego (CA).
  • Bjšrninen T., Moradi E., SydŠnheimo L., Carmena J.M., Rabaey J.M. and Ukkonen L. (2013) Electromagnetic modeling and measurement of antennas for wireless brain-machine interface systems. Proceedings of the International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio 2013), Singapore.
  • Ledochowitsch P., Koralek A.C., Moses D., Carmena J.M., and Maharbiz M.M. (2013) Sub-mm functional decoupling of electrocortical signals through closed-loop BMI learning. Proceedings of EMBC«13, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka (Japan).
  • Dangi S., Gowda S. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Likelihood Gradient Ascent (LGA): A closed-loop decoder adaptation algorithm for brain-machine interfaces. Proceedings of EMBC«13, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka (Japan).
  • Dangi S., So K., Orsborn A.L., Gastpar M.C. and Carmena J.M. (2013) Brain-machine interface control using broadband spectral power from local field potentials. Proceedings of EMBC«13, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka (Japan).
  • Chu P., Muller R., Koralek A., Carmena J.M., Rabaey J.M. and Gambini S. (2013) Equalization for intracortical microstimulation artifact reduction. Proceedings of EMBC«13, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka (Japan).
  • Gowda S., Orsborn A.L. and Carmena, J.M. (2012) Parameter estimation for maximizing controllability of linear brain-machine interfaces. Proceedings of EMBC«12, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego (CA).
  • Koralek A.C. and Carmena J.M. (2012) BMI learning results in hughly precise cell-specific coherence in corticostriatal networks. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • So K., Gastpar M. and Carmena J.M. (2012) An objective approach to learning movement-related features from local field potentials. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • So K., Gastpar M. and Carmena J.M. (2011) Assesing directed information as a method for inferring functional connectivity in neural ensembles. Proceeding of EMBC'11, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston (MA).
  • Orsborn A.L., Dangi S., Moorman H.G. and Carmena J.M. (2011) Exploring time-scales of closed-loop decoder adaptation in brain-machine interfaces. Proceeedings of EMBC'11, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston (MA).
  • So K., Ganguly K., Gastpar M. and Carmena J.M. (2011) Redundant information encoding in primary motor cortex during motor task. 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. Cancun (Mexico).
  • Dangi S., Gowda S., Heliot R. and Carmena J.M. (2011) Adaptive Kalman filtering for closed-loop brain-machine interface systems. 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Cancun (Mexico).
  • Cadieu C., Canolty R., Ganguly K., Barbaro N., Knight R.K., Carmena J.M. and Koepsell K. (2011) A phase-amplitude coupled latent variable model applied to dynamical brain states. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • So K., Ganguly K., Gastpar M. and Carmena J.M. (2011) Functional connectivity in the primary motor cortex during motor tasks. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • Zacksenhouse M., Lebedev M., Carmena J.M. and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2011) Spike-count analysis reveals the relevant timescales in experiments with brain-machine interfaces. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City (UT).
  • Koralek A., Long J.D., Costa R.M. and Carmena J.M. (2010) Corticostriatal dynamics during learning and performance of a neuroprosthetic task. Proceedings of EMBC´10, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires (Argentina).

  • Heliot R., Venkatraman S. and Carmena J.M. (2010) Decoder remapping to counteract neuron loss in brain-machine interfaces. Proceedings of EMBC´10, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires (Argentina).

  • Mark M., Bjorninen T., Chen Y.D., Venkatraman S., Ukkonen L., Sydanheimo L., Carmena J.M. and Rabaey J.M. (2010) Wireless channel characterization for mm-size neural implants. Proceedings of EMBC´10, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires (Argentina).

  • Canolty R.T., Ganguly K., Kennerley S.W., Cadieu C.F., Koepsell K., Wallis J.D. and Carmena J.M. (2010) Single-neuron spike timing depends on global brain dynamics. Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.03.00264

  • Heliot R., Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M.  (2009) Modeling and experimental validation of the learning process during closed-loop BMI operation. International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Hebei (China).

  • Heliot R. and Carmena J.M. (2009) A model of motor learning in brain-machine interfaces: predicting neural tuning changes. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, San Antonio TX.

  • Jimenez J., Heliot R. and Carmena J.M. (2009) Learning to use a brain-machine interface: model, simulation and analysis. Proceedings of EMBC´09, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Venkatraman S., Patten C. and Carmena J.M. (2009) Exploiting the 1/f structure of neural signals for the design of integrated neural amplifiers. Proceedings of EMBC´09, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Venkatraman S., Hendricks J., Richardson-Burns S., Jan E., Martin D.C. and Carmena J.M. (2009) PEDOT coated Microelectrode Arrays for Chronic Neural Recording and Stimulation. 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. Antalya (Turkey).

  • Ranade G.V., Ganguly K. and Carmena J.M. (2009) LFP beta power predicts cursor stationarity in BMI task. 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural engineering. Antalya (Turkey).

  • Heliot R., Orsborn A. and Carmena J.M. (2008) Stiffness control of 2-DOF exoskeleton for brain-machine interfaces. 2nd IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale (AZ).

  • Venkatraman S., Long J.D., Pister K.S.J. and Carmena J.M. (2007) Wireless inertial sensors for monitoring animal behavior. Proceedings of EMBC´07, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon (France).

  • Kim S.P., Carmena J.M., Nicolelis M.A.L. and Principe J.C. (2005) Multiresolution representations and data mining of neural spikes for brain-machine interfaces. Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, VA (USA).

  • Rao Y.N., Kim S.P., Sanchez J.C., Erdogomus D., Principe J.C., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A. and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2005) Learning mappings in BMIs with echo state networks. Proc. of the IEEE-ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA (USA).

  • Sanchez J.C., Principe J.C., Carmena J.M., Lebedev M.A. and Nicolelis M.A.L. (2004) Simultaneous predictions of four kinematic variables for a BMI using a single recurrent neural network. 26th Int. Conf. of the IEEE-EMBS, San Francisco, CA (USA).

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2002) Narrowband 3D tracking using a biomimetic sonarhead. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Lausanne (Switzerland).

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001) A comparison of methods for estimating Doppler shift using cochlear filterbank models. European workshop on advanced mobile robots (EUROBOT), pp. 9-16, Lund (Sweden).

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001) Exploiting the physics: Doppler-based navigation with a bat-inspired mobile robot. Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, pp. 467-476, Tolouse (France).

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2001) A Doppler-based motion controller for an echolocating mobile robot, Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots. Technical Report Series, Dept. of Computer Science, ManchesterUniversity, Manchester (UK). ISSN 1361 6161.

  • Peremans H., Müller R., Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2000) A biomimetic platform to study perception in bats. Proceedings of SPIE: Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotics Systems III, Vol 4196, pp. 168-179, Boston, MA (USA).

  • Carmena J.M., Kim D., and Hallam J.C.T. (2000) Designing artificial ears for animat echolocation. From Animals to Animats 6. pp.73-80, J-A. Meyer et al. (Eds.), MIT Press.

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2000) Estimating Doppler shift with a coarse cochlear filterbank. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vol 1, pp. 221-226, Takamatsu (Japan).

  • Kim D., Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (2000) Towards an artificial pinna for a narrow band biomimetic sonarhead. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1801, pp. 113-122, Miller et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag.

  • Carmena J.M. and Hallam J.C.T. (1999) Improving performance in a multi-robot task through minimal communication. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, pp. 329-337, Coimbra (Portugal).