We still don’t have a computational explanation of phosphenes. 👁️ 🧠
That’s a problem if you’re trying to build visual prosthetics.
Jan Antolik on bridging stimulation, circuit dynamics, and percept:
www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...
#CompNeuroSky #neuroskyence #BionicVision
Thrilled and grateful to share our paper out today in
@nature.com (rdcu.be/fbd7J). We used a brain machine interface (brain computer interface, #BCI) to causally test the origin of the high-gamma band of local field potentials #LFP.
Results impact how we interpret many studies of #brain function
🎙️Live now!
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Germany Hacks the Nervous System. Exploring brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) from a European angle with Dr. Martin Schüttler, CTO of CorTec.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkrS...
From #AI to #CompNeuro to #BionicVision:
“If we wish to intervene in the brain, it is not enough to know what computations we wish to impact...”
Jan Antolik on why biological realism matters:
www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...
#AcademicSky #NeuroAI #neurotechnology
From the AI winter to vision restoration. 👁️ 🧠
@janantolik.bsky.social on building models that take biology seriously and why we still don’t understand how stimulation turns into perception. That gap matters:
www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...
#BionicVision #NeuroSkyence #CompNeuroSky
Can electrical stimulation restore sight?
@spectrum.ieee.org details the work of Shadi Dayeh at @ucsandiego.bsky.social
spectrum.ieee.org/optic-nerve-...
#BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI #blindness
#PRIMA patient describes her experience with prosthetic vision:
stanfordmag.org/contents/vis...
#BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI #ophthalmology
"Right now, we are building faster planes on a runway that nobody is extending. I've spent 20 years studying what happens at the boundary between implanted devices & living brain tissue. The biology is humbling."
- TK Kozai on the #BCI hype
www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai...
#NeuroTech #AcademicSky
New interview w/ José-Alain Sahel, MD, a senior author of the #PRIMA clinical trial:
“It’s the first time that any attempt at vision restoration has achieved such results in a large number of patients…”
science.xyz/news/jose-sa...
#BionicVision #BCI #NeuroTech #AMD #blindness
ReVision Implant receives FDA breakthrough device designation for its Occular visual cortical prosthesis
www.massdevice.com/revision-imp...
#BionicVision #BCI #NeuroTech
Science's PRIMA clinical trials are expanding to Australia, and will include inherited retinal diseases, such as Stargardt disease and retinitis pigmentosa.
Join the patient registry here: patients.science.xyz
#BionicVision #Neurotech #blindness #AMD #stargardt
New research from the Maesoon Im lab introduces transparent electrodes that reduce photoelectric artifacts by 74%, enabling simultaneous optical stimulation and electrical recording using neural interfaces
#BionicVision #NeuroTech #Engineering
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Science Corp. (@science.xyz) announced that they have raised $230M, which will enable them to "to fully see through the commercialization of our brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant, PRIMA, as well as advance our other core pipeline programs into the clinic."
science.xyz/news/series-c/
ARVO Announcement reads: Congratulations, Gislin Dagnelie, PhD, FARVO, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, 2026 Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision Research
Congratulations to Gislin Dagnelie, PhD, FARVO (@jhu.edu) for winning @arvoinfo.bsky.social 's 2026 Oberdorfer Award four outstanding research in low vision rehabilitation! 🥳
Full announcement: www.arvo.org/news/2026-ob...
As #neurotechnology scales toward high-resolution implantable devices, new challenges emerge: how will users calibrate visual implants with thousands of channels?
Learn how by reading our paper, co-first-authored with Dr. Xing Chen, now published at Brain Stimulation!
tinyurl.com/Large-scale-...
A Surrey-based study details how the #retina can build its structure from one type of stem cell: "Our simulations show how genetically identical cells can, through intrinsic bias and chance, self-organise into the retina's highly ordered layers." 🧠 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#BionicVision
The Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are seeking a vision scientist to fill an open-rank, tenure-eligible faculty position
#AcademicSky #Jobs #NeuroTech #BCI
www.bionic-vision.org/jobs/open-ra...
@neuroxepfl.bsky.social invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position (Assistant Professor) in adaptive neurotechnologies:
#AcademicSky #Jobs #NeuroTech #BCI
www.bionic-vision.org/jobs/faculty...
“AMD patients in our clinical trial were able to read and write again, not just letter by letter but word by word,” said Daniel Palanker, professor of ophthalmology and electrical engineering at Stanford University.
#BionicVision #PRIMA #BCI #NeuroTech
time.com/7330887/brai...
Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!!
Come discuss!
An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org
Come meet Science cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer Alan Mardinly at Booth #3101 at the Society for Neuroscience’s (@sfn.org) Annual Meeting 2025 and learn more about our unique biohybrid approach to brain-computer interfaces. #SfN25
Simulated responses of a bipolar cell mosaic to simulated electrical stimulation and the corresponding decoded phosphenes. Small phosphenes appear focal and colored, whereas larger phosphenes most often appear with a white-ish, yellow-ish tint.
If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon!
Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea
PSTR122.22
Nov 16 at 1:00 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
What if retinal prostheses could speak the brain’s language? 👁️🧠🧪
Prof. Yossi Mandel and team built a hybrid implant that merges neurons and electrodes to restore high-acuity sight.
New Data Drop interview ↓
www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...
#BionicVision #Neurotech #Blindness
Can Fruit Ninja train the #BionicEye?
A new JoV paper finds that while participants improved with distorted “prosthetic” input, gaming-based training didn’t generalize to object recognition - hinting that rehab may need to stay task-specific.
doi.org/10.1167/jov....
For those who’d rather not read the whole story, here is its musical summary (via Prof. Daniel Palanker):
youtu.be/n51nloRy7zc?...
🚨 Breakthrough alert: A new study in the NEJM reports that the PRIMA subretinal implant helped restore meaningful central vision in ~80% of participants with advanced geographic atrophy (an untreatable form of #AMD).
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
#BionicVision #NeuroTech
🧠👁️ How do you track eye movements of a #BionicEye user without eyes?
Turns out, even without eyes, intended eye movements can shift the perceived location of phosphenes evoked by a cortical implant - and those movements can be tracked from cosmetic eyes.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
What happens years after the implant?
A new study from Cleveland Clinic follows 13 Argus II users long-term. None still use the device - but nearly half say they’d do it again. A powerful reminder of both the promise and the burden of early #BionicVision.
doi.org/10.1177/2474...
Vivani Medical has withdrawn the record date for spinning off its neuromodulation subsidiary, Cortigent, citing delays caused by the U.S. federal government shutdown
www.cortigent.com/news/vwidnoh...
#BionicEye #blindness
Heads-up! Our Proceedings of the IEEE colleagues have a paper exploring how #brain computer interfaces are becoming full brain-in-the-loop systems linking human intelligence, #AI, and #wireless to power human–machine communication and the #metaverse: https://bit.ly/ProceedingsIEEE-BrainInTheLoop