Connectionists: Essex BCI-NE Webinar 9 April: Dr Camille Jeunet-Kelway

Wed Apr 2 04:35:35 EDT 2025

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The Essex BCI-NE Lab invites you to join our next monthly webinar:
BCI-based neurofeedback training procedures to restore or improve motor skills: a user-centred approach
Delivered by
Dr Camille Jeunet-Kelway
(University of Bordeaux)

The webinar will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, 9th April 2025, at 2pm UK time
Zoom meeting ID: 929 3797 0224

Abstract: Beyond the control of diverse applications, EEG-based BCIs can be used to improve or restore skills through neurofeedback training (NFT) procedures. NFT procedures consist in identifying neuromarkers that underlie target abilities (e.g., cognitive or motor skills), and in training one to voluntarily self-regulate those neuromarkers to improve the associated skills. During the training, users/patients are fed-back with information regarding the modulations of their brain activity. This feedback is meant to enable them to optimise their self-regulation strategies and thereby their performance. Thus, a major challenge is to determine how to maximise the relevance of the feedback and by that the NFT efficiency. In this keynote, I will introduce the research we are leading on that topic, especially in the context of NFT procedures targeting sensorimotor rhythms to improve or restore motor skills. I will describe the 3-step user-centred approach that we develop, namely

  1.  Basic neuroscience research to identify relevant and reliable neuromarkers,
  2.  Applied research in ergonomics to optimise the feedback, and
  3.  Translational research in humanities to maximise acceptability and usability.
I will illustrate this approach through 3 domains of application: motor rehabilitation after stroke, the reduction of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and the improvement of athletic performance.

Speaker Biography: Camille Jeunet-Kelway received her PhD in cognitive sciences in 2016 at the University of Bordeaux, France. After a post-doctoral fellowship in Inria (Rennes, France) and EPFL (Geneva, Switzerland), she was recruited as a tenured CNRS Research Scientist in 2018. In 2021, she has joined the institute for cognitive and integrative neurosciences (INCIA) in Bordeaux, where she leads interdisciplinary research on the use of EEG-BCIs to improve or restore cognitive and motor abilities, both for clinical (stroke patients and patients with Parkinson disease) and non-clinical (athletes) populations. She is particularly interested in studying the learning mechanisms underlying neurofeedback training as well as the acceptability of neurofeedback procedures and BCI technologies. Camille Jeunet-Kelway has received 3 PhD awards, the European Label as well as 5 national fundings from the French research agency for her research. In 2022 she was awarded the Early Career Award in neuroscience from the BCI Society.

The Essex BCI-NE Lab webinars series takes place on the first or second Wednesday of the month over Zoom and our webinars are open to all. Speakers are invited to talk about their research for 45-50 minutes followed by a Q&A session/discussion.
Where speakers allow it, we record the talks and make them available to everyone on our YouTube channel. You can watch previous talks at: https://www.youtube.com/@essexbcis

Next speaker:

  *   Maryam Alimardani (May 2025) - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QGYjBQoAAAAJ&hl=en

If you don't want to miss our next webinars, please email amatra at essex.ac.uk<mailto:amatra at essex.ac.uk> to ask to be added to our webinars mailing list.

Best wishes,
Ana
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Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez PhD
Lecturer in Neural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
University of Essex
Office: 5B.539
E amatra at essex.ac.uk<mailto:amatra at essex.ac.uk>

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Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez PhD
Lecturer in Neural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
University of Essex
Office: 5B.539
E amatra at essex.ac.uk<mailto:amatra at essex.ac.uk>

Email notices:
1) I sometimes write emails outside (your) working hours. Please don't take this as an indication that I require an immediate response - we simply may be working at different times.
2) Because of the daily high load of emails, I may take some time to reply to you. If it's important, I may take even more time, because I want to provide an adequate response. If it's urgent, I'll try to reply quickly and maybe just with a very short email. No disrespect, just trying to be efficient - I'd understand if you did the same.

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