Center for Neurotechnology personnel continue to publish their work in high impact journals. This research includes work from all of the CNT research thrusts: Experimental Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Communication and Interface, and Neuroethics. Recent research publications include:
- Dryg, I., Zhen, L., Darrow, R., Lawton, S., Crawford, L., Robinson, R., Perlmutter, S., Bryers, J.D. and Ratner, B.D., Mechanically compliant, precision-porous brain implants reduce the foreign body reaction and guide regeneration, Adv. Healthcare Materials (2026): e71522.
- Henderson, R.P., Samejima, S. and Moritz, C.T., Filtering spinal cord stimulation artifacts while preserving muscle activity during exoskeleton assisted walking after spinal cord injury, BMC Res Notes (2026), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-026-07962-9.
- Rangarajan, P. and Rao, R.P.N. Hierarchical active inference using successor representations. Neural Comput., 2026, Jun 22:1-54. doi: 10.1162/NECO.a.1545.
- Brown, A. I., Goering, S., and Klein, E. Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing. Science as Culture, (2026) 1–27.
- Guest, J. and Moritz, C. Study design considerations in clinical trials testing transcutaneous stimulation for spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-026-01190-5.
- Griggs, D.J., Stanis, N., Bloch, J., Zhou, J., Khateeb, K., Fisher, S., Shupe, L., Schwock, F., Fetz, E.E., Jahanian, H. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. A large-scale optogenetic neurophysiology platform for improving accessibility in non-human primate behavioral experiments. Nat. Commun. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69448-3.
- Montalvo Vargo, S., Hong, N., Belloir, T., Stanis, N., Zhou, J., Khateeb, K., Hatanaka, G., Ahmed, Z., Kimukin, I., Griggs, D.J., Bair, W., Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. and Chamanzar, M. Smart Dura: a functional artificial dura for multi-modal neural recording and modulation. Microsyst. Nanoeng. 12, 67 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41378-026-01166-8
- Salvatori, T., Mali, A., Buckley, C.L., Lukasiewicz, T., Rao, R.P.N., Friston, K, and Ororbia, A. A survey on neuro-mimetic deep learning via predictive coding. Neural Netw., 2026 Mar;195:108161. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108161.
- N’dri, A.W., Gebhardt, W., Teulière, C., Zeldenrust, F., Rao, R.P.N., Triesch, J. and Ororbia, A. Predictive coding with spiking neural networks: A survey. Neural Netw., 2026 Apr;196:108371. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108371.
- Madduri, M.M., Yamagami, M., Li, S.J., Burckhardt, S., Burden, S.A. and Orsborn, A.L. Computational framework to predict and shape human–machine interactions in closed-loop, co-adaptive neural interfaces. Nat. Mach. Intell., 8:372–387, 2026.
- Nakahara, R., Nasson, S., Bieler, E., Putsche-Young, E., Aguila, B., Shen, J., Chung, E., Winston, L., Burns, S., Crane, D., Eugenio, M., Krogh, K., Krassioukov, A., Moritz, C. and Samejima S. Effects of non-invasive spinal cord stimulation on autonomic function in individuals with subacute spinal cord injury: A pilot clinical trial protocol. PLoS One, 2026 Apr 20;21(4):e0347211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347211.
- Pham, M.T., de Leeuw, A., Burkhart, I., Klein, E and Goering, S. Why we need community-based participatory research (CBPR) in neuroethics, Neuroethics, 19, 15, 2026.
- Canfield, R.A., Ouchi, T., Fang, H., Macagno, B., Smith, L.I., Scholl, L.R. and Orsborn, A.L. The spatiotemporal structure of neural activity in motor cortex during reaching, J. Neurosci., 20 May 2026, 46 (20) e1965252026.
