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Can humans embody augmentative robotics technology?

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Organization address address: GOWER STREET city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 6BT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Total cost	1˙499˙405 €
EC max contribution	1˙499˙405 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2016-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-02-01 to 2022-01-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Organization address address: GOWER STREET city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 6BT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	1˙445˙460.00
2	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Organization address address: WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES city: OXFORD postcode: OX1 2JD website: www.ox.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (OXFORD)	participant	53˙945.00

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Project objective

Wearable technology is redefining the boundaries of our own body. Wearable robotic (WR) fingers and arms are robots, designed to free up or complement our hand actions, to enhance humans’ abilities. While tremendous resources are being dedicated to the development of this groundbreaking technology, little notice is given to how the human brain might support it. The intuitive, though unfounded, view is that technology will fuse with our bodies, allowing our brains to seamlessly control it (i.e. embodied technology). This implies that our brain will share resources, originally devoted to controlling our body, to operate WRs. Here I will elucidate the conditions necessary for technological embodiment, using prosthetic limbs as a model. I will build upon knowledge gained from rehabilitation, experimental psychology and neuroscience to characterise and extend the boundaries of body representation towards successful adoption of WRs. I will combine behavioural, physiological and neuroimaging tools to address five key questions that are currently obscuring the vision of embodied technology: What conditions are necessary for a person to experience an artificial limb as part of their body? Would the resources recruited to control an artificial limb be shared, or rather conflict, with human body representation? Will the successful incorporation of WRs disorganise representations of the human limbs? Can new sensory experiences (touch) be intuitively inferred from WRs? Can the adult brain support the increased motor and cognitive demands associated with successful WRs usage? I will first focus on populations with congenital and acquired hand loss, who differ in brain resources due to plasticity, but experience similar daily-life challenges. I will then test body representation in able-bodied people while learning to use WR fingers and arm. Together, my research will provide the first foundation for guiding how to successfully incorporate technology into our body representation.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Paulina Kieliba, Sasidhar Madugula, Nicola Filippini, Eugene P. Duff, Tamar R. Makin Large-scale intrinsic connectivity is consistent across varying task demands published pages: e0213861, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213861	PLOS ONE 14/4	2020-03-24
2019	Zeena-Britt Sanders, Daan B Wesselink, Harriet Dempsey-Jones, Tamar R Makin Similar somatotopy for active and passive digit representation in primary somatosensory cortex published pages: 754648, ISSN: 2050-084X, DOI: 10.1101/754648	BioRXiv	2020-03-24
2019	Roni O. Maimon Mor, Hunter R. Schone, Rani Moran, Peter Brugger, Tamar R. Makin Motor control drives visual bodily judgements published pages: , ISSN: 0010-0277, DOI:	Cognition	2019-11-07
2019	Avital Hahamy, Tamar R. Makin Remapping in cerebral and cerebellar cortices is not restricted by somatotopy published pages: 2599-18, ISSN: 0270-6474, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2599-18.2019	The Journal of Neuroscience	2019-11-07
2019	Harriet Dempsey-Jones, Daan B. Wesselink, Jason Friedman, Tamar R. Makin Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users published pages: 2748-2756.e4, ISSN: 2211-1247, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.027	Cell Reports 28/11	2019-11-07
2017	Tamar R. Makin, Frederique de Vignemont, A. Aldo Faisal Neurocognitive barriers to the embodiment of technology published pages: 14, ISSN: 2157-846X, DOI: 10.1038/s41551-016-0014	Nature Biomedical Engineering 1/1	2019-06-13
2018	Fiona M Z van den Heiligenberg, Tanya Orlov, Scott N Macdonald, Eugene P Duff, David Henderson Slater, Christian F Beckmann, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jody C Culham, Tamar R Makin Artificial limb representation in amputees published pages: 1422-1433, ISSN: 0006-8950, DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy054	Brain 141/5	2019-06-13

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