Experience, Embodiment, and Post-Trial Obligations in Brain-Based Visual Prosthesis Research

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Disentangling Function from Benefit: Participant Perspectives from an Early Feasibility Trial for a Novel Visual Cortical Prosthesis

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1 While this class would presumably fall under the broad category of non-functional benefit, we believe it is distinct enough from the benefits Levy et al. include under that heading to warrant its own treatment.

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the NIH BRAIN Initiative under Award Number F32MH127776, administered by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), as well as by Brain Initiative/NIMH Award Number R01MH133657. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, BRAIN Initiative, NINDS, NIMH, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, or University Medical Center Utrecht. OCvS received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Crossover Grant No. 17619, as a part of the INTENSE consortium; the Van Leersum Grant/KNAW Medical Sciences Fund, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences; and the University Medical Center Utrecht Strategic Network Development Grant.