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Sumner L Norman

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Sumner L Norman

@SumnerLN

co-founder @merge

California, USA

Joined May 2016

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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Jan 15
Ecstatic to announce Merge Labs! 🧠🚀 I’m honored to work alongside my co-founders—Tyson Aflalo, @mikhailshapiro, @sandroherbig, @alexblania, and @sama on bridging biological and artificial intelligence. They’re *the* team to take on a mission this ambitious. We’re grateful to
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Jun 8, 2024
It never ceases to amaze me what you can do without peer review
SpaceX
@SpaceX
Jun 8, 2024
Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Mar 31, 2024
One of my favorite scientific findings: Some languages are very information dense and some less so. Some languages are spoken fast and some slow. And it turns out that people around the world speak at about the same information rate (~39 bps) regardless.
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Mar 31, 2024
Replying to @SumnerLN
It can be tempting to extrapolate the increasing capabilities of electrode-based motor BCIs and claim they’ll enable superhuman performance in a few years. This paper is one reason to suggest there is a “speed limit” to consider.
science.org
Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human...
Human languages encode similar average information rates (~39 bits/s) despite their remarkable differences.
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Jun 15, 2023
So excited to finally share this work on @biorxivpreprint demonstrating transcranial functional ultrasound brain imaging through a transparent skull prosthetic! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Oct 24, 2023
I have been dying to share our news and it’s finally here: @ForestNeurotech and @ButterflyNetInc are teaming up to build the next generation of neurotechnology! butterflynetwork.com/press-releases…
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Dec 1, 2022
I did not make this bingo card. #Neuralink
Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Jun 1, 2024
Our work made the cover @ScienceTM! In this latest #ultrasound🫱🏽‍🫲🏻#neurotech work, we demonstrate functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) of human brain activity through an acoustically transparent cranial window, opening new doors for non-invasive, high-resolution neuroimaging. 🧵
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Mar 22, 2021
Thrilled to share our latest work out today in @NeuroCellPress using functional #ultrasound (fUS) neuroimaging to decode movement from single trials in non-human primates 🐒 - a new benchmark for fUS & a precursor to closed-loop #BCI. authors.elsevier.com/c/1cnFe3BtfGzj… #tweetprint 🧵 1/n
Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Nov 30, 2023
New Ultrasound BCI results are out! "I remember how impressive it was when this kind of predictive decoding worked with electrodes two decades ago, and it's amazing now to see it work with a much less invasive method like ultrasound," -@mikhailshapiro .
Ultrasound Enables Less-Invasive Brain–Machine Interfaces
From caltech.edu
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
May 1, 2024
"China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement." Interesting perspective from @emilylmullin in @WIRED
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
From wired.com
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Jan 20, 2025
📰 Featured in The Guardian: With support from @ARIA_research investment in precision neurotechnologies, we’re thrilled to announce @ForestNeurotech's role in the UK’s first NHS clinical trial of an ultrasound-powered whole-brain interface. 🧠
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
Apr 26, 2024
This is the most succinct and clearly written primer on whole brain emulation Includes the various approaches and how they might be combined more effectively Love this post from @patrickmineault! h/t @allisondman
Artificial intelligence by mimicking natural intelligence
From neuroai.science
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Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
May 15, 2020
Thrilled to share our latest work on #biorxiv @biorxivpreprint using functional ultrasound neuroimaging to decode movement intention from single trials in non-human primates 🐒 Now, my first attempt at a #tweetprint! 1/n
biorxiv.org
Single Trial Decoding of Movement Intentions Using Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) are powerful devices for restoring function to people living with paralysis. Leveraging significant advances in neurorecording technology, computational power, and...