Our recently published article (Fernández et al., 2021) reports the safety and efficacy of implanting an intracortical microelectrode array in a blind person, suggesting the
Newly published research details how a team of scientists from the University Miguel Hernández (Spain), the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience (Netherlands) and the John A.
How do you navigate a city when you are unable to see anything? In the game The Blind Experience you are solely dependent on your
Donate and give sight to the blind Hein Noortman knows what it is like not to be able to see. An experienced climber, he lost
The popular Dutch science magazine, KIJK, has made a selection of the top 20 technology ideas of 2021. Our neuroprosthesis for vision restoration in the
The NESTOR consortium is delighted to announce that we are showcasing our work on a visual neuroprosthesis at the NEMO Science Museum this summer (2021),
In the future, blind users of a neuroprosthesis for vision restoration could receive tiny electrical currents via a device that is implanted in their brain,
Visual mental imagery is the quasi-perceptual experience of “seeing in the mind’s eye.” While it has been well established that there is a strong relationship
The human brain contains many neurons, the activity of which, when measured, respond differently to specific types of visual input. These neurons can be divided
In this exciting episode of the popular children’s TV series, ‘Klaas Kan Alles,’ Klaas’s challenge is to drive around a race track in a go-kart,
For a visual prosthesis to be useful in daily life, the system relies on image processing to ensure that maximally relevant information is conveyed, e.g.
We developed a mobile simulator of phosphene vision, to allow the general public to experience how artificially induced phosphene vision would look like for blind
The complexity of sensory stimuli has an important role in perception and cognition. However, its neural representation is not well understood. In this article published
Our recently published results in Science on the efficacy of using a 1024-channel neuroprosthesis for the generation of artificial vision gained coverage in national and
Scientists have long dreamed of restoring vision in blind individuals by stimulating the visual cortex, bypassing malfunctioning eyes to directly deliver information to higher visual
Recent advances in neuroscience and technology have made it possible to record from large assemblies of neurons and to decode their activity to extract information.
Recent discoveries from NESTOR Project 3 show that newly developed high-resolution implants in the visual cortex make it possible to recognize artificially induced shapes and
Our consortium members convened in Maastricht for our annual meeting on the 23rd of May, 2019, to share exciting updates from both the NESTOR programme
On the 31st of May, 2018, members of the NESTOR consortium gathered at De Villa in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for our annual
The NESTOR consortium comprises the following research organisations:
The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Radboud University, and the University of Twente. © Copyright 2018 NESTOR. All Rights Reserved.