Artificial Limbs with More Natural Movement Now within Reach
From: Medical Design Technology - 11/25/2014

Providing simple neural signals to brain implants could stand in for body’s
own feedback system

In new research that brings natural movement by artificial limbs closer to
reality, UC San Francisco scientists have shown that monkeys can learn simple
brain-stimulation patterns that represent their hand and arm position, and
can then make use of this information to precisely execute reaching maneuvers.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/11/artificial-limbs-more-natural-movement-now-within-reach

Links:
Sabes Lab
http://keck.ucsf.edu/~sabes/

Philip Sabes, PhD
http://profiles.ucsf.edu/philip.sabes
http://vision.ucsf.edu/copedav/facsabes.html

A learning-based approach to artificial sensory feedback leads to optimal
  integration 
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3883.html