2025
Valle, G., Alamri, A. H., Downey, J. E., Lienkämper, R., Jordan, P. M., Sobinov, A. R., Endsley, L. J., Prasad, D., Boninger, M. L., Collinger, J. L., Warnke, P. C., Hatsopoulos, N. G., Miller, L. E., Gaunt, R. A., Greenspon, C. M., & Bensmaia, S. J. (2025). Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex. Science, 387(6731), 315–322. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq5978
Greenspon, C. (2025). Moving beyond single-electrode intracortical-microstimulation-evoked tactile perception. Nature Biomedical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01339-8
2024
Greenspon, C. M., Valle, G., Shelchkova, N. D., Hobbs, T. G., Ceci Verbaarschot, Callier, T., Berger-Wolf, E. I., Okorokova, E. V., Hutchison, B. C., Efe Dogruoz, Sobinov, A. R., Jordan, P. M., Weiss, J. M., Fitzgerald, E. E., Prasad, D., Driesche, A. V., He, Q., Liu, F., Kirsch, R. F., & Miller, J. P. (2024). Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex. Nature Biomedical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01299-z
Greenspon, Charles M., Natalya D. Shelchkova, Taylor G. Hobbs, Sliman J. Bensmaia, and Robert A. Gaunt. 2024. “Intracortical Microstimulation of Human Somatosensory Cortex Is Sufficient to Induce Perceptual Biases.” medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.19.24305901.
Okorokova, Elizaveta V., Anton R. Sobinov, John E. Downey, Qinpu He, Ashley van Driesche, David Satzer, Peter C. Warnke, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2024. “May the Force Be with You: Biomimetic Grasp Force Decoding for Brain Controlled Bionic Hands.” In Brain-Computer Interface Research: A State-of-the-Art Summary 11, edited by Christoph Guger, Brendan Allison, Tomasz M. Rutkowski, and Milena Korostenskaja, 109–21. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49457-4_11.
Tortolani, Ariana F., Nicolas G. Kunigk, Anton R. Sobinov, Michael L. Boninger, Sliman J. Bensmaia, Jennifer L. Collinger, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, and John E. Downey. 2024. “How Different Immersive Environments Affect Intracortical Brain Computer Interfaces.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.30.605911.
Valle, Giacomo, Ali H. Alamari, Robin Lienkämper, John E. Downey, Anton R. Sobinov, Linnea J. Endsley, Dillan Prasad, et al. 2024. “Tactile Edges and Motion Via Patterned Microstimulation of the Human Cortex.” medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.06.24306627.
Verbaarschot, C., V. Karapetyan, C. M. Greenspon, M. Boninger, S. J. Bensmaia, B. Sorger, and R. A. Gaunt. 2024. “Conveying Tactile Object Characteristics through Customized Intracortical Microstimulation of the Human Somatosensory Cortex.” medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.08.24303392.
Downey, John E., Hunter R. Schone, Stephen T. Foldes, Charles Greenspon, Fang Liu, Ceci Verbaarschot, Daniel Biro, et al. 2024. “A Roadmap for Implanting Microelectrode Arrays to Evoke Tactile Sensations through Intracortical Microstimulation.” medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.26.24306239.
Osborn, Luke E., Breanne Christie, David P. McMullen, Victoria Arriola, Tessy M. Thomas, Ambarish S. Pawar, Robert W. Nickl, et al. 2024. “Subthreshold Intracortical Microstimulation of Human Somatosensory Cortex Enhances Tactile Sensitivity.” https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.21.24309202.
2023
Nanivadekar, Ameya C., Rohit Bose, Bailey A. Petersen, Elizaveta V. Okorokova, Devapratim Sarma, Tyler J. Madonna, Beatrice Barra, et al. 2023. “Restoration of Sensory Feedback from the Foot and Reduction of Phantom Limb Pain via Closed-Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation.” Nature Biomedical Engineering, December, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01153-8.
Shelchkova, Natalya D., John E. Downey, Charles M. Greenspon, Elizaveta V. Okorokova, Anton R. Sobinov, Ceci Verbaarschot, Qinpu He, et al. 2023. “Microstimulation of Human Somatosensory Cortex Evokes Task-Dependent, Spatially Patterned Responses in Motor Cortex.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 7270. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43140-2.
Greenspon, Charles M., Natalya D. Shelchkova, Giacomo Valle, Taylor G. Hobbs, Ev I. Berger-Wolf, Brianna C. Hutchison, Efe Dogruoz, et al. 2023. “Tessellation of Artificial Touch via Microstimulation of Human Somatosensory Cortex.” Preprint. Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.23.545425.
2022
Long, Katie H., Emily E. Fitzgerald, Ev I. Berger-Wolf, Amani Fawaz, Charles M. Greenspon, Stacy Tessler Lindau, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2022. “The Coarse Mental Map of the Breast Is Anchored on the Nipple.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.14.507974.
Long, Katie H., Charles M. Greenspon, Ashley van Driesche, Justin D. Lieber, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2022. “Texture Coding in Higher Order Somatosensory Cortices of Primates.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.19.504511.
2021
Greenspon, Charles M, and Anton R Sobinov. (2019) 2021. “NCams.” Python. https://github.com/CMGreenspon/NCams.
Sobinov, Anton R., and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2021. “The Neural Mechanisms of Manual Dexterity.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, October, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00528-7.
Suresh, Aneesha K., Charles M. Greenspon, Qinpu He, Joshua M. Rosenow, Lee E. Miller, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2021. “Sensory Computations in the Cuneate Nucleus of Macaques.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (49): e2115772118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115772118.
2020
Downey, John E, Kristin M Quick, Nathaniel Schwed, Jeffrey M Weiss, George F Wittenberg, Michael L Boninger, and Jennifer L Collinger. 2020. “The Motor Cortex Has Independent Representations for Ipsilateral and Contralateral Arm Movements But Correlated Representations for Grasping.” Cerebral Cortex, no. January 2001 (June), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa120.
Greenspon, Charles M., Kristine R. McLellan, Justin D. Lieber, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2020. “Effect of Scanning Speed on Texture-Elicited Vibrations.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface 17 (167): 20190892. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0892.
Ortiz-Catalan, Max, Enzo Mastinu, Charles M. Greenspon, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2020. “Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch.” Cell Reports 33 (12): 108539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108539.
Suresh, Aneesha K, James M Goodman, Elizaveta V Okorokova, Matthew Kaufman, Nicholas G Hatsopoulos, and Sliman J Bensmaia. 2020. “Neural Population Dynamics in Motor Cortex Are Different for Reach and Grasp.” Edited by Samantha R Santacruz, Richard B Ivry, Samantha R Santacruz, and Marco Capogrosso. eLife 9 (November):e58848. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58848.
2018
Okorokova, Elizaveta V., Qinpu He, and Sliman J. Bensmaia. 2018. “Biomimetic Encoding Model for Restoring Touch in Bionic Hands through a Nerve Interface.” Journal of Neural Engineering 15 (6): 066033. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aae398.
2016
Flesher, Sharlene N., Jennifer L. Collinger, Stephen T. Foldes, Jeffrey M. Weiss, John E. Downey, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Sliman J. Bensmaia, Andrew B. Schwartz, Michael L. Boninger, and Robert A. Gaunt. 2016. “Intracortical Microstimulation of Human Somatosensory Cortex.” Science Translational Medicine 8 (361): 361ra141-361ra141. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf8083.