The University of Birmingham’s Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) has been awarded an Opportunity Seed grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) in collaboration with the University of Oxford to develop a next-generation brain-computer interface (BCI) that could transform the lives of people with motor impairments.
Led by Dr Katja Kornysheva, Associate Professor in Human Neuroscience and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the School of Psychology, the project will generate a multimodal foundational dataset of hand and arm movements and combine it with cutting-edge multimodal AI, specifically GPT-based models, to decode complex hand and arm movements from non-invasive brain signals. The research team includes Dr Diar Abdlkarim from the University of Birmingham, Dr Oiwi Parker Jones and Professor Ole Jensen from the University of Oxford.
This approach could resolve a long-standing bottleneck in BCI development, making these systems more effective, safer, and accessible to individuals across a wide spectrum of motor disabilities.
