University of Tübingen, Birbaumer Group
Niels Birbaumer's group at the University of Tübingen Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, with a cataloged 2022 intracortical speller study in a completely locked-in patient.
Niels Birbaumer is last author of the 2022 Nature Communications paper, with an affiliation at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen. The same paper lists the Wyss Center in Geneva as an author affiliation; see the Wyss Center brief.
Cataloged hardware and applications
- Intracortical speller in completely locked-in ALS, 2022: two Blackrock arrays in motor cortex, one participant. Device context: Utah microelectrode array.
Program claims versus study evidence
One patient, with results reported as in the paper: 1.08 characters per minute, intelligible output on 44 of 107 speller days. The paper compares this unfavorably with other intracortical studies.
Not public or not verified
Group size, current participants and funding are not stated in the source used here.
Source index
References, research and institutional reports.