Mélanie Kaeser

This study shows that optogenetic stimulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus in tree shrews can generate detectable visual percepts and reveals differences in how thalamic and cortical neurons encode visual stimuli.

The paper introduces a robotic platform for monitoring sensorimotor signals during natural reaching and grasping tasks in monkeys, demonstrating its use in kinematic studies, neural recordings, and brain-computer interface development.