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This is now published in @NatureMedicine. We build upon our previous speech brain-to-text BCI work to show:
(1) almost 2 years of high performance
(2) independent at home use
(3) 99% word accuracy with a 125k word vocab
(Paper link in next post)
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Excited to share our new study on inner speech out now in @CellPressNews!
W/ @benyameister (co-lead) @WillettNeuro (senior)
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.…
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We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)!
Application link in next post.
We'll start reviewing applicants after August 25th
Please RT 🔁
ALT The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we’re looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team. The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met. This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.
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Build the next generation of communication BCIs with us—now hiring a new postdoc! Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IWb…
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Our new preprint describes a multimodal intracortical brain-computer interface that a man with ALS has used at home, independently, almost every day for >19 months. It decodes both speech and cursor control to enable him to communicate and use his computer. Here’s a quick tour👇
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We're excited to announce the Brain-to-Text '25 competition, with a new intracortical speech neuroscience dataset and $9,000 in prizes generously provided by @BlackrockNeuro_!. Can you do better than us at decoding speech-related neural activity into text?
kaggle.com/competitions/brai…
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20 years and 14 BrainGate participants - our latest preprint delivers the first systematic look at Utah array longevity, stability & decoding accuracy in people! 1/7 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Serve on the #BCI Postdoc and Student Committee: Represent your peers. Contribute to exciting initiatives. Grow as a leader.
Apply by June 30.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7
Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C
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📢 Heads-up to the neuro-ML/BCI community that we'll launch the Brain-to-Text '25 competition in ~a month, and it'll run through Dec. 31.
More intracortical electrodes! More varied utterances! More... speechy?
Rumor even has it there'll be cash prizes this year
Stay tuned...
Excited to share our new report on lessons learned from the Brain-to-Text '24 competition! arxiv.org/abs/2412.17227 The biggest jump in accuracy came from using a fine-tuned merger LLM to combine hypotheses from an ensemble (see figure).
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I’m excited to present our new preprint!
An intuitive, bimanual, high-throughput QWERTY touch typing neuroprosthesis for people with tetraplegia.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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4 yrs ago, I jumped from AI into Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research—with almost zero neuroscience experience.
Today, I'm at NPTL, one of the world's leading BCI labs, contributing to breakthroughs like restoring speech for people with ALS and developing a robust handwriting BCI.
There's never been a more exciting time to enter the BCI field!
I'm writing a blog about my journey and advice for newcomers.
What questions do YOU need answered?
Ask below 👇
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A BCI controlling virtual fingers is used to fly a high-performance virtual quadcopter. BCIs could allow people with paralysis to eventually play multiplayer video games with gamers who use video game controllers. @StanfordNsurg @umichneuro @UMBME
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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New brain-computer interface preprint led by PhD student Tyler Singer-Clark!
This video of a man with paralysis accurately controlling a cursor looks like something you've seen since ~2017. BUT! This is driven by multielectrode arrays in ventral (speech) motor cortex‼️ 1/
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Are you a BCI researcher from a low- or middle-income country? Economic restrictions prevent you from attending the #BCI Meeting? If that sounds familiar to you, you should apply to be a speaker at the Global BCI Session. + info 👇
bcisociety.org/global-bci-se…
@BciSociety
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Are you going to be at @SfNtweets #SfN2024?!
Join us for the Arabs in Neuro Social‼‼
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Excited to share our NEW preprint: a "brain-to-voice" neuroprosthesis that directly synthesizes voice from neural activity with closed-loop audio feedback. It allowed a man with ALS to speak expressively by modulating intonation & sing melodies via BCI! doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.14.6… 1/
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Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. 1/9
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Modern neuroscientists routinely record the complex, goal-oriented, and time-varying activity of thousands of neurons. Can we find representations of neural activity that 1) are human-interpretable and 2) enable the generation of neural activity for unrecorded behavioral conditions? We present our recent work on Generating Neural Observations Conditioned on Codes with High Information (GNOCCHI) 🥔🍝 !!
By leveraging unsupervised, information-based diffusion models, GNOCCHI can discover interpretable latent spaces from neural data and generate high-quality neural activity for specific conditions outside of the set of available neural recordings!
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Mark your calendar for the July 18 #BCIthursdays Industry Academia Talk 7 featuring Benjamin Rapoport, Precision Neuroscience & Sergey Stavisky, University of California, Davis. @SergeyStavisky.
Attendance is free but participants must register.
bcisociety.org/event/next-ge…
