A highly modular, wireless, implantable interface to the cortex

The development of advanced neuroprosthetic systems and brain-machine interfaces for high-capacity, real-time, bi-directional communication with the nervous system is a major challenge to the emerging neural engineering discipline. In this paper, we summarize our first preliminary report on the design of a highly modular, wireless, adaptive, implantable large-scale interface to the cortex designed exclusively to permit faithful transmission of neural activity from high-density microelectrode array recordings to the outside world. The system is expected to augment the space of experimental design needed to improve our understanding of the nervous system functionality in freely behaving subjects interacting naturally with their surroundings. It will further accelerate the deployment of viable brain machine interface technology in clinical applications.