Alexander J. Acosta

The paper investigates how motor cortex activity changes during observation of different anthropomorphic effectors, finding increased neural modulation with greater human-likeness of the observed agents.

This study investigates how preparatory activity in the human motor cortex encodes movement features like direction, curvature, and distance, and demonstrates its use for predictive brain-computer interface control.

This paper decodes intended speech from a person with anarthria and locked-in syndrome using an intracortical brain-computer interface, showing that phonemes, words, and higher-order language units can be decoded above chance.