A Psychometric Platform to Collect Somatosensory Sensations for Neuroprosthetic Use.

ABSTRACT: Somatosensory neuroprostheses exploit invasive and non-invasive feedback technologies to restore sensorimotor functions lost to disease or trauma. These devices use electrical stimulation to communicate sensory information to the brain. A sensation characterization procedure is thus necessary to determine the appropriate stimulation parameters and to establish a clear personalized map of the sensations that can be restored. Several questionnaires have been described in the literature to collect the quality, type, location, and intensity of the evoked sensations, but there is still no standard psychometric platform. Here, we propose a new psychometric system containing previously validated questionnaires on evoked sensations, which can be applied to any kind of somatosensory neuroprosthesis

SUBMITTER: Valle G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8757828 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature