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"Declaration of competing interest: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS110823, GRANT12635723, Capadona/Pancrazio) diversity supplement (Hernandez-Reynoso), and the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, (T32EB004314, Capadona/Kirsch). Also, this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant No. 1937968, Krebs). Additional support was provided by Merit Review Award (GRANT12418820, Capadona) and a Senior Research Career Scientist Award (GRANT12635707, Capadona) from the United States (US) Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. The authors thank Dr. Alexandra Joshi-Imre and Dr. Negar Geramifard for the fabrication of non-functional devices for implantation. Data is available upon request to corresponding author."