Cognitive Science

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NeuroMeasure: A Software Package for Quantification of Cortical Motor Maps Using Frameless Stereotaxic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

NeuroMeasure: A Software Package for Quantification of Cortical Motor Maps Using Frameless Stereotaxic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Usman M. Arshad1, Gary W. Thickbroom2, Josh Silverstein2, K. Zoe Tsagaris2, Amy Kuceyeski3, Kathleen Friel4,5, Taiza E. G. Santos6 and Dylan J. Edwards7,8* 1Biomedical Engineering Department, The City College of New York, New York, NY, United States 2Burke Neurological […]

Published on April 16, 2019

On the Relationship Between Muscle Synergies and Redundant Degrees of Freedom in Musculoskeletal Systems

On the Relationship Between Muscle Synergies and Redundant Degrees of Freedom in Musculoskeletal Systems Reza Sharif Razavian*, Borna Ghannadi and John McPhee Motion Research Group, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada It has been suggested that the human nervous system controls motions in the task (or operational) space. However, little […]

Published on April 16, 2019

End-to-End Deep Image Reconstruction From Human Brain Activity

End-to-End Deep Image Reconstruction From Human Brain Activity Guohua Shen1†, Kshitij Dwivedi1†, Kei Majima2, Tomoyasu Horikawa1 and Yukiyasu Kamitani1,2* 1Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, Japan 2Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently been applied successfully to brain decoding and image reconstruction from functional magnetic […]

Published on April 13, 2019