About the Authors

Maryam M. Shanechi

Contributed equally to this work with: Maryam M. Shanechi, Amy L. Orsborn

shanechi@usc.edu (MMS); carmena@eecs.berkeley.edu (JMC)

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Amy L. Orsborn

Contributed equally to this work with: Maryam M. Shanechi, Amy L. Orsborn

Affiliation University of California, Berkeley—University of California, San Francisco Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jose M. Carmena

shanechi@usc.edu (MMS); carmena@eecs.berkeley.edu (JMC)

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, University of California, Berkeley—University of California, San Francisco Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMS ALO. Performed the experiments: MMS ALO. Analyzed the data: MMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMS. Wrote the paper: MMS ALO JMC. Developed the new brain-machine interface: MMS.