Project Description
Our brain can readily learn to control new actions with our effectors/limbs, but can it also learn to control new limbs in addition to our current ones? Answering this question will clarify an individual brain’s neuronal limits, for functional augmentation with brain-machine interface (BMI) systems and of plasticity after brain damage. This JSPS (Kakenhi 'houga')multi-disciplinary project with the University of Electro-communication in Tokyo will provide a crucial understanding of the unused capabilities of the human brain in regard to effector control and will enable a human to use this capability to incorporate an additional artificial limb naturally into his body schema.
Period
2015-2017Related Publications (including JRL contributions)
| Title | Authors | Conference/Book | Year | bib | |
| The role of functionality in the body model for self-attribution | L. Aymerich-Franch, G. Ganesh | Neuroscience Research | 2016 | ||
| Beyond Watching: Action understanding by humans and its implications for interacting robots | G. Ganesh, T. Ikegami | Dance Notations and Robot Motion, in the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | 2016 | ||
| Embodiment of a humanoid robot is preserved during partial and delayed control | L. Aymerich-Franch, D. Petit, G. Ganesh, A. Kheddar | IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts | 2015 |