Restoring vision through electrical stimulation

Working in interdisciplinary teams from seven European universities and institutions with complementary expertise in computational, systems, and clinical neuroscience, materials engineering, microsystems design and deep learning, the project will develop technology to restore vision in blind people through electrical stimulation of the visual cortex.

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The aim of the project is to develop a prosthesis with thousands of electrodes driven by adaptive machine learning algorithms for a new brain-computer interfacing technology. “We aim to make an interface with the cortex with more than 1,000 electrodes that will keep working for many years, even decades”, explains Pieter Roelfsema, project leader and director of the NIN. Current systems only stimulate a small set of neurons in the brain, and interfaces have a longevity of only a few months to a year.

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