Neural subspaces of imagined movements in parietal cortex remain stable over several years in humans.
Luke BashfordI RosenthalS KellisD BjånesK PejsaBingni W BruntonR A AndersenPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
A crucial goal in brain-machine interfacing is long-term stability of neural decoding performance, ideally without regular retraining. Here we demonstrate stable neural decoding over several years in two human participants, achieved by latent subspace alignment of multi-unit intracortical recordings in posterior parietal cortex. These results can be practically applied to significantly expand the longevity and generalizability of future movement decoding devices.