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Bluebrain | EPFL. Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind. BERKELEY — Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios within reach. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and computational models, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people’s dynamic visual experiences – in this case, watching Hollywood movie trailers.

As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, the breakthrough paves the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees, such as dreams and memories, according to researchers. The approximate reconstruction (right) of a movie clip (left) is achieved through brain imaging and computer simulation Brain activity evoked by the second set of clips was used to test the movie reconstruction algorithm. MIT : Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Neuro-Programmer 3 - Innovative Brainwave Entrainment Software. How does NP3 work? It’s surprising science, but thanks to modern equipment it’s easy to prove that this works because we can watch it happening on an EEG. And over 80 years of scientific investigation have revealed many useful applications for this method, which are being widely used today.5 Neuro-Programmer 3 takes advantage of the latest research in this field to deliver the most effective neural stimulation experience.

Benefits Inspired and informed by the best practices and research in the fields of psychology, neurology, and audio-visual stimulation studies, Neuro-Programmer 3 is a software application with unlimited potential and broad capabilities. Although it is incredibly simple to use, it’s also one of the most effective tools for positive mental change that you’ll ever find. 1. Back to the top. NeuroSky - Brainwave Sensors for Everybody. Welcome to the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind. Www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/ljt/np.pdf. Music and the Brain: From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication. Emily S. Cross | Bangor University - Academia.edu. Watch this: Kinect turns a dancer into a 22,000-point musical sculpture. Digital artists Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer have released their latest creation, an "unnamed soundsculpture" which turns the movements of dancer Laura Keil into a moving sculpture reminiscent of sand pouring through your hand to the floor.

The designers used three of Microsoft's Kinect cameras arranged in a triangle, which creates a three-dimensional model and tracks every aspect of Keil's movements in minute detail: her body is transformed into 22,000 points. The designers then mapped a camera move around the motion-tracked model, and added gravity so that each point steadily falls to the floor creating the illusion of flowing sand.

The delay this creates also means that it often seems to be more than one dancer, with ghostly arms protruding from the current body of dots. The result is mesmerizing, perfectly complementing the electronic soundscape by Machinefabriek. Brain on Dance - Social Brain in Action Laboratory. Social Brain in Action Laboratory  - Home. WU Neuroscience Faculty. The goal of our research is to better understand how the human nervous system controls and adapts locomotor patterns in healthy individuals and people with nervous system pathology.

We are particularly interested in the control of walking direction and spatial orientation during walking. Current projects, focused primarily on gait and movement dysfunction in people with Parkinson disease, utilize kinematic, electromyographic, videooculographic, and magnetic resonance imaging techniques. McNeely ME, Hershey T, Campbell MC, Tabbal SD, Karimi M, Hartlein JM, Lugar HM, Revilla FJ, Perlmutter JS, Earhart GM (2011 Apr 8). Effects of deep brain stimulation of dorsal versus ventral subthalamic nucleus regions on gait and balance in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. Full Article > Scott JT, Lohnes CA, Horak FB, Earhart GM (2011 Feb). Hackney ME, Earhart GM (2009 Aug 12). McNeely ME, Earhart GM (2010 Mar). Hong M, Perlmutter JS, Earhart GM (2009 Feb). Gammon Earhart, PT, Ph.D.

Earhart gm. Giacomo Rizzolatti on the discovery of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons part 1. Mirror neurons part 2.