Can humans embody augmentative robotics technology?

Complex pattern of facial remapping in somatosensory cortex following congenital but not acquired hand loss.

Author(s): Root, Victoria; Muret, Dollyane; Arribas, Maite; Amoruso, Elena; Thornton, John; Tarall-Jozwiak, Aurelie; Tracey, Irene; Makin, Tamar R
Published in: eLife, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) e76158, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.17863/cam.93320

The neural resource allocation problem when enhancing human bodies with extra robotic limbs

Author(s): Giulia Dominijanni, Solaiman Shokur, Gionata Salvietti, Sarah Buehler, Erica Palmerini, Simone Rossi, Frederique De Vignemont, Andrea d’Avella, Tamar R. Makin, Domenico Prattichizzo & Silvestro Micera
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, Issue 3, 2021, Page(s) 850–860, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s42256-021-00398-9

Expert Tool Users Show Increased Differentiation between Visual Representations of Hands and Tools

Author(s): Hunter R. Schone, Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Chris I. Baker, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 41/13, 2021, Page(s) 2980-2989, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2489-20.2020

Stimulating the deprived motor ‘hand’ area causes facial muscle responses in one-handers

Author(s): Elena Amoruso, Maria Kromm, Danny Spampinato, Benjamin Kopp, Dollyane Muret, John Rothwell, Lorenzo Rocchi, Tamar R Makin
Published in: Brain Stimulation, 2021, ISSN 1935-861X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2021.01.022

Talking with Your (Artificial) Hands: Communicative Hand Gestures as an Implicit Measure of Embodiment

Author(s): Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Emeka Obasi, Jenny Lu, Nour Odeh, Stephen Kirker, Mairéad MacSweeney, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: iScience, Issue 23/11, 2020, Page(s) 101650, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101650

Early life experience sets hard limits on motor learning as evidenced from artificial arm use

Author(s): Roni O. Maimon-Mor; Hunter R Schone; David Henderson Slater; A. Aldo Faisal; Tamar R. Makin
Published in: eLife, Issue 10, 2021, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.26.428281

Malleability of the cortical hand map following a finger nerve block

Author(s): Daan B. Wesselink, Zeena-Britt Sanders, Laura R. Edmondson, Harriet Dempsey-Jones, Paulina Kieliba, Sanne Kikkert, Andreas C. Themistocleous, Uzay Emir, Jörn Diedrichsen, Hannes P. Saal, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8 (16), 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2393

Is an artificial limb embodied as a hand? Brain decoding in prosthetic limb users

Author(s): Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 18/6, 2020, Page(s) e3000729, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000729

Beyond body maps: Information content of specific body parts is distributed across the somatosensory homunculus

Author(s): Dollyane Muret, Victoria Root, Paulina Kieliba, Danielle Clode, Tamar R Makin
Published in: Cell reports, Issue 38(11), 2022, Page(s) 110523, ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110523

Artificial limb representation in amputees

Author(s): 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
Published in: Brain, Issue 141/5, 2018, Page(s) 1422-1433, ISSN 0006-8950
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy054

Motor control drives visual bodily judgements

Author(s): Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Hunter R. Schone, Rani Moran, Peter Brugger, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: Cognition, Issue 196, 2020, Page(s) 104120, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104120

Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users

Author(s): Harriet Dempsey-Jones, Daan B. Wesselink, Jason Friedman, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: Cell Reports, Issue 28/11, 2019, Page(s) 2748-2756.e4, ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.027

Remapping in cerebral and cerebellar cortices is not restricted by somatotopy

Author(s): Avital Hahamy, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2019, Page(s) 2599-18, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2599-18.2019

Large-scale intrinsic connectivity is consistent across varying task demands

Author(s): Paulina Kieliba, Sasidhar Madugula, Nicola Filippini, Eugene P. Duff, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/4, 2019, Page(s) e0213861, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213861

Brain (re)organisation following amputation: Implications for phantom limb pain

Author(s): Tamar R. Makin, Herta Flor
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 218, 2020, Page(s) 116943, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116943

Soft Embodiment for Engineering Artificial Limbs

Author(s): Tamar R. Makin, Frederique de Vignemont, Silvestro Micera
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 24/12, 2020, Page(s) 965-968, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.008

The homeostatic homunculus: rethinking deprivation-triggered reorganisation

Author(s): Dollyane Muret, Tamar R Makin
Published in: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2021, ISSN 0346-251X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.08.008

Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation

Author(s): Paulina Kieliba, Danielle Clode, Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Tamar R. Makin
Published in: Science Robotics, Issue 6/54, 2021, Page(s) eabd7935, ISSN 2470-9476
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abd7935

Neurocognitive and motor-control challenges for the realization of bionic augmentation

Author(s): Tamar R Makin, Silvestro Micera, Lee E Miller
Published in: Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022, ISSN 2157-846X
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00930-1

Intrinsic somatosensory feedback supports motor control and learning to operate artificial body parts

Author(s): E Amoruso, L Dowdall, MT Kollamkulam, O Ukaegbu, P Kieliba, T Ng, H Dempsey-Jones, D Clode, TR Makin
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 19(1), 2022, Page(s) 016006, ISSN 1741-2560
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac47d9

Making sense of phantom limb pain

Author(s): Hunter R Schone, Chris I Baker, Joel Katz, Lone Nikolajsen, Katleho Limakatso, Herta Flor, Tamar R Makin
Published in: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Issue 93(8), 2022, Page(s) 833-843, ISSN 1468-330X
Publisher: BMJ Group
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2021-328428

Phantom Limbs and Brain Plasticity in Amputees

Author(s): Tamar Makin, London Plasticity Lab
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.50

Phantom limb pain: thinking outside the (mirror) box

Author(s): Tamar R Makin
Published in: Brain, Issue 144/7, 2021, Page(s) 1929-1932, ISSN 0006-8950
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awab139

Neurocognitive barriers to the embodiment of technology

Author(s): Tamar R. Makin, Frederique de Vignemont, A. Aldo Faisal
Published in: Nature Biomedical Engineering, Issue 1/1, 2017, Page(s) 0014, ISSN 2157-846X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-016-0014

Does Training on Broad Band Tactile Stimulation Promote the Generalization of Learning?

Author(s): Esteban Sebastian Lelo de, Harriet Dempsey-Jones, Tamar Makin, Aaron R. Seitz
Published in: 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2019, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-8128-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/devlrn.2019.8850704

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