At the  department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the  UMC Utrecht Brain Center we are fascinated by the brain and how it produces our everyday actions, most specifically how the brain controls movement. Through our research, we try to create a dictionary with which we can interpret the brain. Using this dictionary, we can detect which movements the brain is generating and use this to control a Brain-Computer Interface to restore communication individuals with severe paralysis.

We use small and compacted High-Density ECoG grids placed under the skull to record brain activity at a millimeter scale. This allows us to study the brain in high detail, which is crucial to unravel how the brain controls hand movement and perceives and produces speech. Furthermore, we develop cutting-edge tools to streamline high-density ECoG signal acquisition, processing and interpretation.

High-density ECoG recordings are performed either during brain awake surgery or during  Epilepsy monitoring period at the UMC Utrecht.