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Neuroscience

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60
Citations
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National Ranking
1730

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Citations
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World Ranking
3033
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2007 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Jose M. Carmena is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. The main field of their research is Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, among other subfields.

Their research covers a variety of topics including:

  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jose M. Carmena include:

  • "A wireless millimetre-scale implantable neural stimulator with ultrasonically powered bidirectional communication" (2020), published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • "Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies" (2021), published in Neuroethics
  • "Skilled independent control of individual motor units via a non-invasive neuromuscular-machine interface" (2021), published in Journal of Neural Engineering
  • "Head-mounted microendoscopic calcium imaging in dorsal premotor cortex of behaving rhesus macaque" (2021), published in Cell Reports
  • "Left hemisphere dominance for bilateral kinematic encoding in the human brain" (2022), published in eLife

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nuria Vendrell-Llopis
  • Rui M. Costa
  • Michel M. Maharbiz
  • Christina Merrick
  • Tanner C. Dixon

Jose M. Carmena has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, Scientific Reports, Nature Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroethics.

Throughout their career, they have been recognized with awards including the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009 and the Hellman Fellow award in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Learning to Control a Brain–Machine Interface for Reaching and Grasping by Primates

    Jose M Carmena;Mikhail A Lebedev;Roy E Crist;Joseph E O'Doherty

  • Chronic, multisite, multielectrode recordings in macaque monkeys

    Miguel A. L. Nicolelis;Dragan Dimitrov;Jose M. Carmena;Roy Crist

  • Cortical Ensemble Adaptation to Represent Velocity of an Artificial Actuator Controlled by a Brain-Machine Interface

    Mikhail A. Lebedev;Jose M. Carmena;Joseph E. O'Doherty;Miriam Zacksenhouse

  • Emergence of a Stable Cortical Map for Neuroprosthetic Control

    Karunesh Ganguly;Jose M. Carmena;Jose M. Carmena

  • Wireless Recording in the Peripheral Nervous System with Ultrasonic Neural Dust

    Dongjin Seo;Ryan M. Neely;Konlin Shen;Utkarsh Singhal

  • Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI

    Rafael Yuste;Sara Goering;Blaise Agüera y Arcas;Guoqiang Bi

  • Corticostriatal plasticity is necessary for learning intentional neuroprosthetic skills

    Aaron C. Koralek;Xin Jin;John D. Long;Rui M. Costa

  • A wireless millimetre-scale implantable neural stimulator with ultrasonically powered bidirectional communication.

    David K. Piech;David K. Piech;Benjamin C. Johnson;Benjamin C. Johnson;Konlin Shen;Konlin Shen;M. Meraj Ghanbari

  • A Minimally Invasive 64-Channel Wireless μECoG Implant

    Rikky Muller;Hanh-Phuc Le;Wen Li;Peter Ledochowitsch

  • Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assemblies

    Ryan T. Canolty;Karunesh Ganguly;Steven W. Kennerley;Charles F. Cadieu

  • In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of PEDOT Microelectrodes for Neural Stimulation and Recording

    S Venkatraman;J Hendricks;Z A King;A J Sereno

  • Physical principles for scalable neural recording

    Adam Henry Marblestone;Bradley M Zamft;Yael G Maguire;Mikhail G Shapiro

  • Microstimulation Activates a Handful of Muscle Synergies

    Simon A. Overduin;Andrea d’Avella;Jose M. Carmena;Jose M. Carmena;Emilio Bizzi

  • Reversible large-scale modification of cortical networks during neuroprosthetic control

    Karunesh Ganguly;Dragan F Dimitrov;Jonathan D Wallis;Jonathan D Wallis;Jose M Carmena

  • Closed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Shapes Neural Plasticity for Skillful Neuroprosthetic Control

    Amy L. Orsborn;Helene G. Moorman;Simon A. Overduin;Maryam M. Shanechi

  • A wireless and artefact-free 128-channel neuromodulation device for closed-loop stimulation and recording in non-human primates

    Andy Zhou;Samantha R Santacruz;Samantha R Santacruz;Benjamin C Johnson;George Alexandrov

  • Representation of Muscle Synergies in the Primate Brain.

    Simon A. Overduin;Andrea d'Avella;Jinsook Roh;Jose M. Carmena

  • Combining Decoder Design and Neural Adaptation in Brain-Machine Interfaces

    Krishna V. Shenoy;Jose M. Carmena

  • A Fully-Integrated, Miniaturized (0.125 mm²) 10.5 µW Wireless Neural Sensor

    W. Biederman;D. J. Yeager;N. Narevsky;A. C. Koralek

  • Neural Dust: An Ultrasonic, Low Power Solution for Chronic Brain-Machine Interfaces

    Dongjin Seo;Michel M Maharbiz;Elad Alon;Jose M Carmena

  • Stable ensemble performance with single-neuron variability during reaching movements in primates.

    Jose M Carmena;Mikhail A Lebedev;Craig S Henriquez;Miguel A L Nicolelis

  • Ensemble recordings of human subcortical neurons as a source of motor control signals for a brain-machine interface.

    Parag G Patil;Jose M Carmena;Miguel A L Nicolelis;Dennis A Turner;Dennis A Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel M. Maharbiz
Michel M. Maharbiz University of California, Berkeley
Jan M. Rabaey
Jan M. Rabaey University of California, Berkeley
Karunesh Ganguly
Karunesh Ganguly University of California, San Francisco
Elad Alon
Elad Alon University of California, Berkeley
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Duke University
Rui M. Costa
Rui M. Costa Columbia University
Michael Gastpar
Michael Gastpar École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Mikhail A. Lebedev
Mikhail A. Lebedev Moscow State University
Toni Bjorninen
Toni Bjorninen Tampere University
Leena Ukkonen
Leena Ukkonen Tampere University

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