Neurally driven synthesis of learned, complex vocalizations

Neurally-Driven Adaptive Decision Aids

Warfighters are constantly challenged with increasingly complex mission environments, roles, and tasks, which require rapid and accurate decision making. Most current military and commercial decision aids leverage a single strategy: they retrieve and fuse information about well-defined objects and events for the user. Such aids effectively discourage users from considering contextual informatio...

Synthesis of Listener Vocalizations

Norepinephrine Modulates Coding of Complex Vocalizations in the Songbird Auditory Cortex Independent of Local Neuroestrogen Synthesis.

The catecholamine norepinephrine plays a significant role in auditory processing. Most studies to date have examined the effects of norepinephrine on the neuronal response to relatively simple stimuli, such as tones and calls. It is less clear how norepinephrine shapes the detection of complex syntactical sounds, as well as the coding properties of sensory neurons. Songbirds provide an opportun...

Probabilistic Characterization and Synthesis of Complex Driven Systems

Augmenting intracortical brain-machine interface with neurally driven error detectors.

OBJECTIVE Making mistakes is inevitable, but identifying them allows us to correct or adapt our behavior to improve future performance. Current brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) make errors that need to be explicitly corrected by the user, thereby consuming time and thus hindering performance. We hypothesized that neural correlates of the user perceiving the mistake could be used by the BMI to au...