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    • Neuroscience
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Robotics

    Background:

    • Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) offer potential for restoring function and studying neural control.
    • Existing BMIs often lack bidirectional capabilities or naturalistic control paradigms.
    • Vertebrate spinal cord mechanisms provide a model for generating complex motor control policies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a novel bidirectional brain-machine interface framework.
    • To investigate the role of voluntary neural commands in controlling a dynamical system.
    • To establish an experimental setup for connecting freely moving animal brains to external devices.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a bidirectional brain-machine interface system.
    • Inspiration from the vertebrate spinal cord's control policy generation (force field).
    • Experimental validation using a freely moving, alert rat interacting with a cart-based reward system.

    Main Results:

    • Successful implementation of a novel experimental framework for bidirectional brain-machine interfacing.
    • Demonstration of an alert rat utilizing the interface to acquire a food reward.
    • Establishment of a system for exploring neural control of a dynamical system.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed framework enables real-time bidirectional communication between the brain and an external device.
    • This approach facilitates the study of voluntary neural control in a closed-loop system.
    • The system holds promise for advancing research in neuroprosthetics and understanding neural computation.