We would like to invite you to participate in our excellence workshop ‘Cortical Prostheses – Interdisciplinary Research Towards Artificial Vision for the Blind’. It will take place September 19-22, 2023 at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst (near Bremen, Germany).

As you might know quite well from your own experience, it is a huge problem to interface with the brain and to successfully introduce artificial, meaningful signals into on-going neural information processing. On the other hand, exciting possibilities in medical and fundamental research are waiting to be explored and to be realized. In particular, it becomes more and more obvious that making communication with the brain more efficient requires a much more profound understanding about 'normal' visual information processing in healthy subjects. This workshop will address major topics and challenges in this field:

* Advances in neurotechnology
* Advances in the understanding of visual information processing
* Novel methods for combining theory and technology

Our workshop will bring together experimentalists, technologists, medical scientists, and theoreticians who are the experts in getting meaningful signals into neuronal circuits actively engaged in information processing. Speakers include Diego Ghezzi, Pieter Roelfsema, Eduardo Fernandez Jover, Bogdan Raducanu, Arto V. Nurmikko, Umut Guclu, Christopher Pack, Michael Herzog, Avi Caspi, Shelley I. Fried, Udo Ernst, Fabian Sinz, Carlos Ponce, Theo Doll, Ione Fine, Daniel Yoshor, Michael Beyeler, Björn Lüssem, Schander Andreas, Michael Schmid, and Dirk Jancke.

There are two options for attending the workshop: