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Xing Chen

Assistant Professor
x.chen@pitt.edu
Website Bioengineering Department

overview

The Chen lab develops high-channel-count, chronically implantable devices to record from and stimulate the brain. We harness cutting-edge developments in electrode fabrication and microelectronics to improve probe durability and biocompatibility, generating fundamental neuroscientific knowledge and translating results from the lab to the clinic.

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(2021) Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Brain Award for Scientific Excellence.

(2019) SfN ‘Hot Topic’ Poster.

(2018) Amsterdam Neuroscience Meeting Best Poster Award.

PhD, Newcastle University

BA, University of Southern California

Chen, X., Wang, F., Kooijmans, R., Klink, P.C., Boehler, C., Asplund, M., & Roelfsema, P.R. (2023). Chronic stability of a neuroprosthesis comprising multiple adjacent Utah arrays in monkeys. JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 20(3), 036039.IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ace07e.

Chen, X., Morales-Gregorio, A., Sprenger, J., Kleinjohann, A., Sridhar, S., van Albada, S.J., Gruen, S., & Roelfsema, P.R. (2022). 1024-channel electrophysiological recordings in macaque V1 and V4 during resting state. SCIENTIFIC DATA, 9(1), 77.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01180-1.

van Velthoven, E.A.M., van Stuijvenberg, O.C., Haselager, D.R.E., Broekman, M., Chen, X., Roelfsema, P., Bredenoord, A.L., & Jongsma, K.R. (2022). Ethical implications of visual neuroprostheses-a systematic review. JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 19(2), 026055.IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac65b2.

Fernandez, E., Alfaro, A., Soto-Sanchez, C., Gonzalez-Lopez, P., Lozano, A.M., Pena, S., Dolores Grima, M., Rodil, A., Gomez, B., Chen, X., Roelfsema, P.R., Rolston, J.D., Davis, T.S., & Normann, R.A. (2021). Visual percepts evoked with an intracortical 96-channel microelectrode array inserted in human occipital cortex. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION, 131(23).American Society for Clinical Investigation. doi: 10.1172/JCI151331.

Klink, P.C., Chen, X., Vanduffel, W., & Roelfsema, P.R. (2021). Population receptive fields in nonhuman primates from whole-brain fMRI and large-scale neurophysiology in visual cortex. ELIFE, 10.eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67304.

Chen, X., Wang, F., Fernandez, E., & Roelfsema, P.R. (2020). Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex. SCIENCE, 370(6521), 1191-1196.American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi: 10.1126/science.abd7435.

Sanayei, M., Chen, X., Chicharro, D., Distler, C., Panzeri, S., & Thiele, A. (2018). Perceptual learning of fine contrast discrimination changes neuronal tuning and population coding in macaque V4. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 9(1), 4238.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06698-w.

Chen, X., Possel, J.K., Wacongne, C., van Ham, A.F., Klink, P.C., & Roelfsema, P.R. (2017). 3D printing and modelling of customized implants and surgical guides for non-human primates. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, 286, 38-55.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.05.013.

Gilson, M., Tauste Campo, A., Chen, X., Thiele, A., & Deco, G. (2017). Nonparametric test for connectivity detection in multivariate autoregressive networks and application to multiunit activity data. Network Neuroscience, 1(4), 357-380.MIT Press. doi: 10.1162/netn_a_00019.

Tomsett, R.J., Ainsworth, M., Thiele, A., Sanayei, M., Chen, X., Gieselmann, M.A., Whittington, M.A., Cunningham, M.O., & Kaiser, M. (2015). Virtual Electrode Recording Tool for EXtracellular potentials (VERTEX): comparing multi-electrode recordings from simulated and biological mammalian cortical tissue. BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION, 220(4), 2333-2353.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s00429-014-0793-x.

Chen, X., Sanayei, M., & Thiele, A. (2014). Stimulus Roving and Flankers Affect Perceptual Learning of Contrast Discrimination in Macaca mulatta. PLOS ONE, 9(10), e109604.Public Library of Science (PLoS). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109604.

Chen, X., Sanayei, M., & Thiele, A. (2013). Perceptual learning of contrast discrimination in macaca mulatta. JOURNAL OF VISION, 13(13), 22.Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). doi: 10.1167/13.13.22.

Chen, X., Hoffmann, K.P., Albright, T.D., & Thiele, A. (2012). Effect of feature-selective attention on neuronal responses in macaque area MT. JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 107(5), 1530-1543.American Physiological Society. doi: 10.1152/jn.01042.2010.

Bartolo, M.J., Gieselmann, M.A., Vuksanovic, V., Hunter, D., Sun, L., Chen, X., Delicato, L.S., & Thiele, A. (2011). Stimulus-induced dissociation of neuronal firing rates and local field potential gamma power and its relationship to the resonance blood oxygen level-dependent signal in macaque primary visual cortex. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 34(11), 1857-1870.Wiley. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07877.x.