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Daphna Joel

Professor, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
The brain responds differently to natural touch on a finger versus a direct electrical stimulation. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library

Restoring touch through electrodes implanted in the human brain will require engineering around a sensory lag

David Caldwell, University of California, San Francisco; Rajesh P. N. Rao, University of Washington

When designing neuroprosthetic devices for users to control with their thoughts, engineers must take into account the sensory information brains collect from the environment and how it gets processed.

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