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Investigators and Program Directors

Jonathan Wolpaw

Jonathan R. Wolpaw

Research Physician, Wadsworth Center, Neural Injury and Repair
Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

M.D., Case Western Reserve University (1970)
Postdoctoral training, National Institutes of Health

Brain-Computer Interface System

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  • Wolpaw, J.R. Brain-computer interfaces as new brain output pathways. Journal of Physiology, 579:613-619, 2007.
  • Wolpaw, J.R. and Chen, X.Y. Operant conditioning of spinal cord reflexes. In: New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. (L. Squire, T. Albright, F. Bloom, F. Gage, N. Spitzer (Eds)., in press.
  • Wolpaw, J. R. and Chen, X.Y. The cerebellum in maintenance of a motor skill: A hierarchy of brain and spinal cord plasticity underlies H-reflex conditioning. Learning & Memory 13:208-215, 2006.
  • Chen, Y., Chen, X.Y., Jakeman L,B., Chen, L., Stokes B.T. and Wolpaw, J.R. Operant conditioning of H-reflex can correct a locomotor abnormality after spinal cord injury in rats. Journal of Neuroscience 26:12537-12543, 2006.
  • Wolpaw, J.R.and McFarland, D.J. Control of a two-dimensional movement signal by a noninvasive brain-computer interface in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:17849-17854, 2004.
  • Wolpaw, J.R., McFarland, D.J., Vaughan, T.M. and Schalk, G. The Wadsworth Center Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Research and Development Program. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 11:204-207, 2003.
  • Vaughan, T.M., Heetderks, W.J., Trejo, L.J., Rymer, W.Z., Weinrich, M., Moore, M.M., Kübler, A., Dobkin, B.H., Birbaumer, N., Donchin, E., Wolpaw, E.W. and Wolpaw, J.R. Brain-computer interface technology: A review of the Second International Meeting. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 11:94-109, 2003.
  • Wolpaw, J.R, Birbaumer, N., McFarland, D.J., Pfurtscheller, G. and Vaughan, T.M. Brain-computer interfaces for communication and control. Clinical Neurophysiology 113:767-791, 2002.
  • Wolpaw, J.R. Memory in Neuroscience: Rhetoric versus reality. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 1:130-163, 2002.
  • Wolpaw, J.R. and Tennissen, A.M. Activity-dependent spinal cord plasticity in health and disease. Annual Review of Neuroscience 24:807-843, 2001.
  • Wolpaw, J.R. Spinal cord plasticity in the acquisition of a simple motor skill. In: Spinal Cord Plasticity: Alterations in Reflex Function. (Eds. M.M. Patterson and J.W. Grau), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2001, pp. 101-125.

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E-mail: wolpaw@wadsworth.org .