Antonio Lozano
Next-gen vision neural interfaces.
Prev: vision co-leader @INTENSE, postdoc at Vision & Cognition lab (Roelfsema lab @NIN), PhD at Biomedical Neuroengineering group (Eduardo Fernandez lab @UMH). Core team in first-in-human vision intracortical trial.
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoIf you are interested in neural manifolds, dimensionality, brain states, and/or top-down modulation you are gonna like this one! 🧠🙈💫🧪 "Neural manifolds in V1 change with top-down signals from V4 targeting the foveal region" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Also enjoy this animation :) #SciArt #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoA blind person recovered low vision within a few days of being implanted with a Utah array and receiving electrical stimulation in the visual cortex. An unexpected and exciting discovery by @umh.es researchers 👀🧠 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
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- Reposted by Antonio Lozano#NEUmap: Large-scale mapping of artificial perceptions for neuroprostheses using spontaneous neuronal activity in macaque and human visual cortex www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social et al.; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
- #NEUmap: Large-scale RF mapping without visual input for neuroprostheses in macaque and human visual cortex www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social @aitormg.bsky.social et al.; "a rapid, largely automated method for phosphene mapping"; #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience
- As #neurotechnology scales toward high-resolution implantable devices, new challenges emerge: how will users calibrate visual implants with thousands of channels? Learn how by reading our paper, co-first-authored with Dr. Xing Chen, now published at Brain Stimulation! tinyurl.com/Large-scale-...
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano🧠 From NIH-funded discovery → game-changing brain implants → NEW science that was impossible before. This loop = cures, jobs & American tech leadership 🇺🇸 Join me MONDAY 12/8, 1pm ET: "Next-Gen Neural Interfaces → Next Scientific Revolution” 🚀 #NeuroTech #BCI #NIH #BrainTech #TaxpayerWin
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHonored to be appointed the Ernest E. Roth Professor at Pitt. Grateful for the trainees, collaborators, and colleagues advancing neural engineering and glial biology. Thank you to the Dean for supporting our UP NExT vision, engineering fundamental neuroscience discovery to improve lives.
- Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org
- Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoOur final poster at #SfN2025 explores human-in-the-loop optimization for intracortical microstimulation, presented by @lozaneuro.bsky.social, in collaboration with @umh.es: PSTR450.20 Nov 19 at 1:00 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25 #VisionScience #NeuroTechnology
- I will be presenting the poster “Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” at the Early Career Poster Session #SfN as a TPDA awardee! Nov. 15, 2025 18:45–20:45 (PT) Poster: G5 SDCC Halls C–H Come discuss!
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano🧠 🤖 #SfN25 - these amazing trainees are pioneering multifunctional brain-computer interfaces and deep inference of multi-area dynamics!
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoA big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
- Super exciting opportunity!!
- Applications open for postdoc fellowships at the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, deadline Nov 3. www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... Great opportunity to work with our world class faculty; the fellowship is set up for collaboration between multiple labs, including my #NeuroAI group 🤖🧠🧪
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoLong time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain. Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human! TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHad a great first day at the Bernstein workshop on control theory uses in neuroscience! I presented some of our work on control theory behavior assays for movement, and approaches to designing BCIs.
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoUndecided which workshop to attend at #BernsteinConference ? We put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣 Join us tomorrow in room 0.101 ! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... With @ackurth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoNow also 1024 electrodes in V1 + V4 + IT www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoOur new paper on anterior prefrontal role of 'social metacognition' (projection of one's own introspection to imagine others' thought) is just out at Nature Communications rdcu.be/d6Tcg
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Antonio LozanoEvery time I get a new subscriber on substack I get an email, and it's so nice to see familiar names from the present and the past. There's a warm fuzzy feeling to know that people appreciate that I periodically clog their inbox with my 3000+ word ramblings
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano#NEUmap: Large-scale RF mapping without visual input for neuroprostheses in macaque and human visual cortex www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social @aitormg.bsky.social et al.; "a rapid, largely automated method for phosphene mapping"; #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoThe energy savings of fish that swim together. elifesciences.org/articles/96129
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoGreat set of activities around C. elegans modeling. nature.com/articles/s43... see summary: nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoThat's a wrap! I hope you enjoyed some of my very subjective choice of comp neuro papers! Happy holidays to y'all! 🥳🎄✨️
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoMore holiday reading! We argue that BCIs should be classified based on their intended application, and that this language is best for the public, regulators, policy makers, etc.
- What is or isn't a "BCI"? We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵 #BCI #BrainComputerInterface
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoDAY 15: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 Heterogeneity of neural properties can improve some computational functions, but homogeneity also has its advantages! It's complicated 😅 “Neural heterogeneity controls computations in spiking neural networks” @rgast.bsky.social et al www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Antonio Lozanocomputational/theoretical neuroscientists, how important it is to you that you can be in the same building w/ experimentalists who are interested in conducting new studies to directly test your ideas / predictions? or u think outside collaborators + analyzing existing datasets are just as well?
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoWe have a new PhD position available; please spread the word and repost. The project will combine retina recordings, computational modeling, and optogenetics to help further develop vision restoration therapy. See here for more information: retina.uni-goettingen.de/join-the-lab/
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoDAY 9: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 The shape and speed of neural trajectories, as wells as manifold orientation are shaped by the network structure and inputs, which we can control! 💫 "Dynamic control of neural manifolds" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Antonio LozanoDAY 4: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 Travelling waves seem to be everywhere in the brain. Detecting them is now easy and reproducible with Cobrawap! 🤠🐍 "A modular and adaptable analysis pipeline to compare slow cerebral rhythms across heterogeneous datasets" www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoA population transformer for iEEG. Solid results hinging on better spatial aggregation through a contrastive task. openreview.net/forum?id=hVY...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHow can we build BCIs that operate robustly in the face of nonstationarities? Our @neuripsconf.bsky.social Datasets and Benchmarks paper introduces the Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark! Led by Brianna Karpowicz and @joelye.bsky.social
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoExcited to be able to share our (Robert Gaunt, Alberto Vazquez, Omar Gharbawie, Mac Hooks, Chengcheng Huang) recent work to the University of Pittsburgh Provost and Vice Chancellor of Research, as well as the Board of Trustees. news.engineering.pitt.edu/power-moves/
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano🚀 We’re hiring! Forest Neurotech is looking for a Software Engineering Lead to build the core systems powering our ultrasound neurotech platform. As a nonprofit FRO, we're advancing science for public good. If you’re excited about neurotech & impact let’s talk. 🌍🧠 forestneurotech.org/jobs
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoIn relation to a recent discussion on how to support women in science organized by the German embassy in Prague, I wrote a blog post reflecting my thoughts on this topic. In short, I stress 3 aspects: self-confidence, role models and flexible parental leave. neam.mff.cuni.cz/blog/post5_w...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoThis is a great initiative, thank you @aitormg.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoTogether with some friends we built an optical Brain Machine Interface to see if cortical activity (PPC) can control behaviour in real time, without animals having to learn to use it. Here's what happened: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- too late :p it’s a great book btw
- Reposted by Antonio Lozano🚨 Big news for #PRIMA's journey to restore vision! The PRIMAvera clinical trial has cleared all Data Safety Monitoring Board standards, paving the way for #PRIMA's CE mark approval in the EU. 🧠🧪 Read more: science.xyz/news/prima-d... #BionicVision #NeuroTech #blindness
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoOK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoThere has been a lot of interest in Neurotech/Neuroscience for AI Safety, but the field has been in dire need of an actionable roadmap. Can't wait to dig into this.
- Reposted by Antonio Lozanowhy is episodic memory rich in sensory details in (most) humans, while in ML 'replays' tend to be just symbolic? what good is projecting the highly sparsified engram code back to smooth sensory space? 🧠
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoA few pictures from yesterday's hike in Rigi
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoFun to see this place coming a bit more alive! I tried my hand at a starter pack for neural engineering & computationally-leaning (systems) neuroscience. Super not exhaustive, so if you want to be added (or removed), just ping me. I'm still working on finding folks here. go.bsky.app/Ty3ftmeat://did:plc:7eolti2jt6slmgrpelo4t6xm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lapk4tofd72h
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoCreated a Neural Engineering feed if this is useful to anyone. #BCI #Neurotech #NeuralInterface #NeuralEngineering #Neuroengineering #Neuroelectronics bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoBCIs list! Still finding folks on here so please message me if you'd like to be added.at://did:plc:qtfeviyy3itfvty2m3prekyt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lc7jzwjxoh22
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoI'm putting together a starter pack of neuro people working on #proprioception. Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/RXN6MB2
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHere is a brief summary of academic journals and news account. Please help me add more accounts to this list! go.bsky.app/hCfhqnat://did:plc:quna2f4yibcqbobigh3cdodu/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lc54w3juot2v
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoGoogle’s Large Sensor Model (LSM) introduces scaling laws to wearables tech. Trained on 40M hours of multimodal sensor data from 165k users, LSM sets a new standard for analyzing continuous physiological signals. research.google/blog/scaling... Brief summary in thread ⬇️
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHow natural stimuli lead to highly correlated ganglion cell activity in primate (marmoset) and mouse retina. Now out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. And, I guess, great opportunity for a first post on this site. #FirstSkeet Very brief summary in this thread. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Antonio Lozanonow that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public! youtu.be/zIJi6dXN6Zc
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoHow do visual prosthetics stack up in everyday life? 👁️🧠🧪 Our latest study reveals a significant gap between researcher expectations and the actual usage of bionic eyes by recipients: tvst.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... #BionicVision #NeuroTech #Blindness #Accessibility
- Reposted by Antonio LozanoI had an idea way back in college which I've long thought could be, in many ways, the ultimate BCI technology. What if instead of using electrodes, we used biological neurons embedded in electronics to communicate with the brain? Enter biohybrid neural interfaces: science.xyz/news/biohybr...
