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 |