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On April 16, 2019, Alex Ossadtchi and Mikhail Lebedev have made a keynote speech at the Skolkovo Robotics 2019 event. Nickolay Smetanin has also demoed a neurointerface designed at the CBI to control an exoskeleton (made by the Russian company ExoAtlet).

CBI researchers Alexandra Kuznetsova and Yulia Nurislamova made oral presentations athe MEG UK 2019 conference to have taken place April 15-17 in Cardiff, UK.

Russia-24 aired a story in which Alex Ossadtchi, Ksenia Volkova, Nickolay Smetanin, Alexander Belyayev and Alexandra Kuznetsova talk about the CBI and its research: an exoskeleton-controlling neurointerface, myographic interface to control a hand avatar and the main project to develop an invasive neurointerface to be used in clinical settings.

A recent edition of Popular Mechanics has featured an article about the study "Testing the efforts model of simultaneous interpreting: An ERP study" by Roman Koshkin, Yury Shtyrov, Andriy Myachykov and Alex Ossadtchi originally published in PLoS ONE in 2008.

Photo report from the international symposium ExoRehab Spotlights 2018 that took place on December 5 in Moscow.
Researchers of the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces Nikolai Smetanin, Aleksandra Kuznetsova and Alexei Ossadtchi presented Russia's first EEG-based neural interface that uses lower limb motor imagery for exoskeleton control. Alexei Ossadtchi also made a presentation "BCI for walk decoding".
This work has been done in collaboration with the Russian company ExoAtlet and Denis Lyovin who had volunteered to pilot the exoskeleton.
Megagrant #14.641.31.0003 "Bi-directional ECoG BCIs for contol, stimulation and communication". Lead scientist: Mikhail Lebedev.

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (impact-factor 3.87) has published the paper "NFBLab — A Versatile Software for Neurofeedback and Brain-Computer Interface Research" by Nikolai Smetanin, Ksenia Volkova, Stanislav Zabodayev, Mikhail Lebedev and Alexei Ossadtchi. This research was funded by Megagrant #14.0641.31.0003. Lead scientist: Mikhail Lebedev.

We congratulate our colleague Anastasiya Belinskaya on winning a studentship from the Oxford Russia Fund! The studentship is awarded to graduate students for 2018 and 2019 based on academic merit and research performance. Anastasiya's master thesis project is titled "The effect of feedback signal presentation latency on the effectiveness of training in neurofeedback paradigm" and is supervised by Prof. Alex Ossadtchi.

To learn more about the studentship, please visit http://oxfordrussia.ru/news/324/.

We have uploaded video recordings from the October 2018 conference titled "CCCP: Cortical Codes: Control and Perception" co-organized by the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces and the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences.