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Funding Body: RIDT Brain Research Fund of the Malta Neuroscience Network.
In this project, in collaboration with the University of Parma, intracranial stereo-EEG data collected from patients during voluntary opening and closing of a set of normal and reverse-action pliers together with a signal representing the position of the pliers are analysed with the objective to throw light on the human neural basis of the opening and closing motor actions and on the higher level intentional grasping action which can be differentiated from the data obtained when subjects used the normal versus the reverse-action pliers. Furthermore, this project seeks to perform single trial classification of the open-close events in the context of brain-machine interfaces, building our track record of work on scalp EEG brain-computer interfacing, which in turn may be used to control external devices without muscle control, or to drive neural prostheses.
