The following are key research papers in the field of Brain Machine Interfaces. This isn’t an exhaustive list but rather just the “who’s who” of this area.

• Fetz 1969 : Widely acknowledged as the paper that kicked off the BMI era by proving that monkeys can change neuron behavior on command.
• Georgopoulos 1986 : The seminal paper on 3D population vector coding in cortical cells
• Taylor 2002 : An adaptive method of tracking neuronal ‘intent’ in a BMI
• Carmena 2003 : Duke researchers achieve 3D BMI
• Buzsaki 2004 : Technical description of neuronal ensemble recordings
• Lebedev 2006 : A thorough review of the state of BMI research as of 2006
• Ben-Shaul 2003 : Describes how preferred directions are related for cells on the same and adjacent electrode
• Porrill 2007 : The adaptive cerebellar control loop we are using in our present research
• Lewicki 1998 : The authoritative review of the spike detection and spike sorting problems