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Jackson J Cone¹, Amy M Ni², Kaushik Ghose³

¹Department of Neurobiology, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.

|November 9, 2018

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Electrical microstimulation of the brain

Keywords:

microstimulation perception prosthesis psychophysics vision

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Biomedical Engineering
Sensory Prosthetics

Background:

Sensory prostheses aim to restore natural sensation via direct electrical stimulation of neural circuits.
Long-term stability of percepts from chronic cortical stimulation is largely unknown.
Reliable methods for assessing stimulation sensitivity are crucial for prosthetic development.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the long-term stability of percepts generated by electrical microstimulation of the primary visual cortex (V1).
To develop and validate sensitive methods for measuring behavioral detection thresholds.
To assess the impact of repeated microstimulation on perceptual sensitivity.

Main Methods:

Rhesus monkeys were trained on a two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) detection task.
Adaptive staircase procedures were used to measure behavioral detection thresholds.
Chronic and acute microelectrodes were employed for V1 stimulation.

Main Results:

Highly reliable detection thresholds were obtained with as few as 100 trials.
Repeated electrical microstimulation elevated behavioral detection thresholds.
These elevated thresholds persisted between daily testing sessions.

Conclusions:

Rapid and reliable measurement of detection thresholds is feasible using the developed task design.
The stability of detection thresholds under chronic stimulation requires further validation for effective sensory prosthetics.