Joseph Thachil Francis

Similarities Between Somatosensory Cortical Responses Induced via Natural Touch and Microstimulation in the Ventral Posterior Lateral Thalamus in Macaques

The paper compares somatosensory cortical responses from natural touch and microstimulation in macaques' ventral posterior lateral thalamus, showing high correlation between the two.

Normalization by Valence and Motivational Intensity in the Primary Sensorimotor Cortices (PMd, M1 and S1)

The paper investigates normalization mechanisms in sensorimotor cortices by analyzing valence and motivational intensity in non-human primates.

Mirror Neurons are Modulated by Grip Force and Reward Expectation in the Sensorimotor Cortices (S1, M1, PMd, PMv)

This study identifies mirror neuron populations in sensorimotor cortices that represent grip force and reward expectation during manual and observational tasks in non-human primates.

Noise Correlation is Modulated by Reward Expectation in the Primary Motor Cortex Bilaterally During Manual and Observational Tasks in Primates

The paper shows that noise correlation in the primary motor cortex changes with reward expectation during manual and observational tasks in non-human primates, suggesting new ways to improve brain-computer interfaces.

Reward Modulates Local Field Potentials, Spiking Activity and Spike-Field Coherence in the Primary Motor Cortex

This study examines how reward expectation modulates neural activity in the primary motor cortex, showing changes in alpha power, spike rates, and spike-field coherence during motor tasks and observation.

Primary Motor Cortex Encodes A Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning Process

The paper shows that primary motor cortex encodes a temporal difference reinforcement learning process, reflecting state value functions and reward prediction errors in various tasks.

Paradigm Shift in Sensorimotor Control Research and Brain Machine Interface Control: The Influence of Context on Sensorimotor representations

This paper shows that reward modulates neural activity in M1 during BMI control and demonstrates using this modulation to improve BMI decoder performance.

Persistent increases of PKMζ in sensorimotor cortex maintain procedural long-term memory storage

This study shows that persistent increases in PKMζ in specific layers of the sensorimotor cortex are necessary for maintaining long-term procedural memories in rats.

Near Perfect Neural Critic from Motor Cortical Activity Toward an Autonomously Updating Brain Machine Interface

This paper demonstrates a neural critic that classifies reward value from motor cortical activity with high accuracy, aiming to improve brain machine interfaces.