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Jeong-Woo Sohn is a leading researcher in motor neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), whose work focuses on decoding neural activity to restore movement for individuals with paralysis. His most-cited study, "Motor Cortical Correlates of Arm Resting in the Context of a Reaching Task and Implications for Prosthetic Control" (2014, 59 citations), provides critical insights into how motor-cortical ensemble activity relates to kinematic parameters during both active reaching and arm resting states. This work has significant implications for developing more naturalistic prosthetic control systems, as it challenges conventional models that overlook resting-state neural patterns. Sohn's research leverages non-human primate models, particularly Rhesus monkeys, to investigate neural responses during grasp tasks with robotic hands, as demonstrated in his 2019 study. By refining the relationship between M1 area activity and upper-limb movements, his contributions advance the preclinical validation of BMIs, offering a pathway toward more intuitive and responsive prosthetic devices. His work is essential for students and researchers aiming to bridge neural decoding with real-world rehabilitation technologies.
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- 2Neural response to grasp of robot hand from M1 area of Rhesus monkey2 citations · 2019