Yan Wong
@yantatwong
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Engineer and Neuroscientist at Monash University
Joined December 2019
Great to be in Mumbai to hear about the exciting collaborations between IITB and Monash @MonashBDI @monashengineers @iitbmonash
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Associate Professor @yantatwong, leading "bionic eye" researcher and course director for Biomedical Engineering at @monashengineers, updates the current state of cortical visual implants in this interview with @OphthoMag
theophthalmologist.com
Could retinal and neural implant technology offer sight restoration for a number of life-altering ocular diseases?
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An exciting discovery in our #BioPhysicsFeature this week: a cutting-edge study using non-invasive brain imaging helps to diagnose deaf infants, helping them get the treatment they need even sooner: https://t.co/NLt5XkAGrj
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Audrey was too young to say she could hear you. But her brainwaves could. https://t.co/Fg8cXVECeh
theage.com.au
Scientists have been using invisible, near-infrared light to measure how babies hear, in research they hope will fast-track treatments for deafness, and expand our understanding of language develop...
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Researchers led by electrical/biomedical engineer @yantatwong have identified a new way of mapping phosphenes – the flashes we see when no light is entering the eye – to improve outcomes for patients receiving a cortical visual prosthesis
monash.edu
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Hearing impairment can affect children’s ability to develop language and speech skills. Now, researchers have conducted non-invasive measurements of the brain activity of infants, to map the changes in connectivity between different language areas over time.
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📢Last call for Healthcare Innovation Summer Scholarships (HISS) Program student applications! Work with clinicians to solve frontline health problems. Student applications close Friday 26 August at 5pm @MYMI_MedTech @MonashPartners More: https://t.co/WeA6RAIyqP 📢
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MedTech Actuator & @MenziesFdation congratulate the 2022 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholars! The scholarship supports emerging scientists and researchers on their pathway to an impact-driven career fusing #science, #research, & #Entrepreneurship
https://t.co/ijb7mGi051
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So excited to share my latest work on the mechanisms of neural communication out in #Nature. @MonashBDI @pesaranlab
nature.com
Nature - During combined looking and reaching movements, neurons in the reach region of the brain can inhibit those in the saccade region to improve coordination.
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Great to be part of this collaboration uncovering how our brains control naturalistic reaches and grasps @MonashBDI @monashengineers
nature.com
Nature Communications - Motor control involves neural dynamics at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Here the authors show that a multiscale, low-dimensional dynamical structure that is shared between...
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New lab paper out in @ScienceAdvances. It turns out that retinotopic maps can and do contain "twists" in primate extrastriate cortex! From @HsinHaoYu and @ezavitz on Twitter; as well as Declan Rowley, Nic Price and Marcello Rosa. https://t.co/VzxfuWIXl1
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Our @NatureNeuro paper is out, first-authored by my student @omidsani. It develops PSID, a novel dynamic method to dissociate & model behaviorally relevant neural dynamics. Thanks to @salixabb, Y Wong & collaborator @pesaranlab. Summary & code below: 1/n https://t.co/4t5OS0xfQm
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The MATLAB/Python codes for PSID are available at https://t.co/gNF8gxyp2C. We are excited to see how others might use PSID in their research. Finally, shout out again to all coauthors @omidsani, @salixabb, Yan Wong & @pesaranlab. n/n
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Preferential Subspace Identification Algorithm. Contribute to ShanechiLab/PSID development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Great collaboration between researchers at @MonashBDI and @monashengineers. Lots happening in vision, neuroscience and tissue engineering. Keep an eye out for new exciting developments in Biomedical Engineering @MonashUni.
Innovative bionic eye technology developed at Monash University. Privilege to be on the Governance Committee and supporting this exciting project. #monash #bioniceye #innovation #melbourne
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After a year of hard work, our new recording microchip to allow us to wirelessly record from the brain just arrived. @BrainDialogue @monashengineers @MonashBDI
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Congratulations to Monash Neurobionics Lab PhD student Tim Allison-Walker on being selected as a student competition finalist at #EMBC20 for his work on cortical vision prostheses!!! @monashengineers @MonashBDI @NSBMegalab @BrainDialogue
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Great to have @mauhagan, @ezavitz, and Nic Price presenting our latest work at the Systems and Computational Neuroscience Down Under conference #SCINDU @BrainDialogue @QldBrainInst
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Congratulations to @mauhagan on her #ideasgrant. Explaining the importance of inter-area brain communication on mental health to @GregHuntMP and @jcarrollmonash. Excited to get started on this important work!! @monashengineers @MonashBDI @nhmrc
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