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Please, take note of the next BCI-NE seminar featuring Professor Damien Coyle.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The Essex BCI-NE Lab invites you to join our next monthly webinar:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>AI-enabled Brain-Computer Interfaces for Awareness Assessment after Brain Injury and Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation
and Entertainment Applications of Neurotechnology</b></span></p>
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</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Damien Coyle</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professor of Neurotechnology and Director, The Bath Institute for the Augmented Human, University of Bath</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professor of Neurotechnology, Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University</span></p>
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Founder and CEO, NeuroCONCISE Ltd</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The webinar will take place in Colchester campus and over Zoom on Thursday, 13<sup>th</sup> November 2025, at 4PM UK time </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RSVP:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA57ce3bbc-bef8-ac77-c5e5-a98e49ee9d12" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7390345923912073216">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7390345923912073216</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><b>Abstract</b></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><b>:</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Prolonged
disorders of consciousness (PDoC) present a major challenge for assessment and communication. Motor imagery brain–computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) provide a promising means of detecting residual awareness by enabling modulation of sensorimotor oscillations through
imagined movement. This presentation will share findings from a structured multi-phase MI-BCI study involving patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), minimally conscious state (MCS), and locked-in syndrome (LIS). Across repeated training sessions,
patients demonstrated the capacity to modulate sensorimotor rhythms and to respond to closed questions, with extended feedback and practice revealing clearer differentiation of cognitive abilities. These results highlight MI-BCI’s potential as a movement-independent,
EEG-based approach to augment diagnostic assessment and deepen understanding of covert cognition. The talk will also present advances in continuous motion trajectory decoding (MTD) BCIs. The presentation will conclude by introducing AI-enabled wearable neurotechnology
platforms developed by NeuroCONCISE Ltd that support large-scale data collection and user training, offering a scalable route from laboratory research to real-world impact.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Speaker Biography</b>: Damien Coyle is a Professor of Neurotechnology, a UKRI Turing AI Acceleration Fellow and Director
of the Bath Institute for the Augmented Human, University of Bath. His research focuses on developing AI to address challenges associated with translating electrophysiological signals into control signals for brain-computer interface based neurotechnology
and trialling neurotechnology on a large scale with patients and end-users including spinal injury, stroke, disorders of consciousness, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He is Founder and CEO of NeuroCONCISE Ltd (www.neuroconcise.co.uk), an award-winning,
AI-enabled, wearable neurotechnology company.</span></p>
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<b>Essex BCI-NE Lab webinars series</b> takes place once per month over Zoom and the webinars are open to all. Speakers are invited to talk about their research for 45-50 minutes followed by Q&A.</span></p>
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watch previous talks at: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.youtube.com/@essexbcis" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4646dd34-2c42-6715-99f2-7d026e8742c7" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@essexbcis">https://www.youtube.com/@essexbcis</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you don’t want to miss our next webinars, please email Simis (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>serafeim.perdikis<a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="3" title="mailto:amatra@essex.ac.uk" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA419468e9-dad9-3470-a3bb-5e3c2551cd66" href="mailto:amatra@essex.ac.uk">@essex.ac.uk</a>)</u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to
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