| How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations |
Scientific American |
May 2022 |
| Bensmaia Lab receives nearly $10M to study the sensorimotor system using groundbreaking new robotic system |
UChicago News |
January 2022 |
| Quadriplegic Chicagoan participating in potentially game-changing research for robotic prosthetic limbs |
Fox 32 |
August 2021 |
| UChicago researchers re-create sense of touch and motor control in paralyzed patient |
UChicago News |
July 2021 |
| Capturing the sense of touch could upgrade prosthetics and our digital lives |
ScienceNews |
April 2021 |
| Long-term prosthetic use may not rewire the brain |
Futurity |
December 2020 |
| UChicago neuroscientists expand possibilities for realistic prosthetic limbs |
UChicago News |
September 2020 |
| How researchers are returning sensation to breast cancer survivors |
UChicago News |
May 2020 |
| The quest for a bionic breast |
IEEE Spectrum |
May 2020 |
| Man undergoes surgery, receives robotic arm |
NBC Morning News |
November 2019 |
| Weird illusion makes you think fabric is moving faster than it is |
New Scientist |
August 2019 |
| The magic touch: bringing sensory feedback to brain-controlled prosthetics |
Medical Devices Network |
January 2019 |
| $3.4 million grant to support development of brain-controlled prosthetic limbs |
UChicago News |
October 2018 |
| Neuroprosthetics and the future of artificial touch |
Curiosity |
October 2017 |
| Computer model simulates sense of touch from the entire hand |
UCMC Science Life |
June 2017 |
| Artifical hand helps amputee feel softness |
CBS News |
October 2016 |
| Restoring the sense of touch in amputees using natural signals of the nervous system |
UCMC Science Life |
October 2016 |
| Researchers help paralyzed man regain sense of touch through a robotic arm |
UChicago News |
October 2016 |
| In a medical first, brain implant allows paralyzed man to feel again |
The Washington Post |
October 2016 |
| The secret of Cashmere’s luxurious appeal |
Discover Magazine |
July 2016 |
| Another Look at the Neurophysiology of Tactile Perception |
Journal of Neurophysiology Podcasts |
June 2016 |
| Three Chicago research facilities are changing the world of prosthetics |
Chicago Health Online |
February 2016 |
| Ideas in movement: The next wave of brain-computer interfaces |
Nature Medicine |
January 2016 |
| Sheet music for creating the artificial sense of touch |
UCMC Science Life |
October 2015 |
| Whether you touch or see, your brain tracks movement mostly the same way |
Medical Daily |
September 2015 |
| Brain teasers |
Discovery Series |
March 2015 |
| Utah team gets $1.4M for bionic hand research |
UNews |
February 2015 |
New understanding of neural language gives amputees ability to discern
light touch to intense pressure |
The Daily |
February 2015 |
| Medical wonders |
Chicago Magazine |
January 2015 |
| Once more with feelin’ |
The Groks Science Show |
August 2014 |
| Touching me, touching you |
Science Life Podcast |
November 2013 |
| Monkey feels touch with prosthetic hand |
New Scientist |
October 2013 |
| Touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs take step forward in monkey study |
Live Science |
October 2013 |
| Neuroprosthetics: Once more, with feeling |
Nature |
May 2013 |
| Sense of touch uses vibrations, just like hearing |
Science 2.0 |
December 2012 |
| How Our Sense of Touch is a Lot Like the Way We Hear |
University of Chicago Medical Center |
December 2012 |
| The idea behind today’s prosthetic story |
Chicago Tribune |
June 2011 |
| University of Chicago scientists aim to develop prostheses with sense of touch |
Chicago Tribune |
June 2011 |
| Mind-controlled artificial arm begins the first human testing |
Singularity Hub |
August 2010 |
| Human Trials Next for Darpa’s Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm |
GIZMODO |
June 2010 |
| The feedback loop |
University of Chicago Magazine |
June 2010 |
| Sensory processing: Sensing motion with tact |
Nature |
March 2010 |
| Touch Neurons Have a Good Sense of Direction |
PLOS |
February 2010 |
