An initial attempt toward brain-machine interface development for manipulatable object recognition

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26730081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (2016); Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: O'Hashi Kazunori 国立研究開発法人国立精神・神経医療研究センター, 神経研究所 疾病研究第三部, 流動研究員 (90617458)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ブレインマシンインターフェース / 物体認識

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To develop a brain-machine interface system, which enables to send artificial information to higher brain areas, in this study we attempted to manipulate columnar neural activities of monkey inferior temporal cortex encoding visual object information. As a tool to manipulate neural activities, electrical microstimulation was adopted to activate specific object columns forcibly. As a result, we succeeded to make the animal percept electrically-created-visual objects that were virtually non-existent during delayed matching to sample test.

Free Research Field

システム神経科学