Motor neuroprosthetic control by Wistar rats in a one-dimensional two-target reaching task
Syed Muhammad Talha Zaidi, Hasan Berke Bilki, Halise Erten, Samet Kocatürk, Tunçer Baykaş, Mehmet Kocatürk · FENS Forum 2024
Nonhuman primates are commonly used to study the neural basis and the performance of motor neuroprosthetic control. Rodents are mostly not preferred in such studies due to their limited cognitive and visual abilities. In this work, we examine the capability of Wistar rats for neuroprosthetic control for reaching two distant targets. Three rats were chronically and bilaterally implanted with two 16-channel microelectrode arrays in the primary motor cortex. A behavioral setup and shaping paradigm was developed to direct the attention of rats to a motor neuroprosthetic endpoint, and to enable cor
ePoster · Neuroscience