Interactive Android Application for EEG Biofeedback | C World
This post details the research and development of a mobile application which receives and annotates neurofeedback data from a commercial electroencephalography (EEG) device with a single dry electrode. The system is designed to convert any Android mobile phone into a portable storage device that passively records the user’s brainwaves while providing an interface to manually annotate the data with daily activities and moods. This application has the potential to provide numerous benefits to medical fields including but not limited to: neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and head and neck trauma. Useful Links This project began as a personal infatuation with brain-computer interfacing after I discovered some fascinating interactive games and applications that people were developing using EEG technology. Problem Statement Today, Neuroscientists, Psychologists, and other physicians use neurofeedback to diagnose, predict, and treat certain neurological and pathological conditions. Arduino
Math Learning Disabilities
While children with disorders in mathematics are specifically included under the definition of Learning Disabilities, seldom do math learning difficulties cause children to be referred for evaluation. In many school systems, special education services are provided almost exclusively on the basis of children’s reading disabilities. Even after being identified as learning disabled (LD), few children are provided substantive assessmentAssessment is a broad term used to describe the gathering of information about student performance in a particular area. See also formative assessment and summative assessment. and remediation of their arithmetic difficulties. This relative neglect might lead parents and teachers to believe that arithmetic learning problems are not very common, or perhaps not very serious. Different types of math learning problems As with students’ reading disabilities, when math difficulties are present, they range from mild to severe. Mastering basic number facts In summary
Brain-Controlled RC Helicopter
This Instructable will show you how take a Radio Controller Helicopter and modify the remote control hardware such that it can be operated by free, open source computer software and flown based on brainwave measurements of concentration and relaxation taken by consumer-grade EEG headsets. The software used in this Instructable consists of two applications, Puzzlebox Synapse and Puzzlebox Brainstorms. The former connects to commercially available consumer-grade EEG headsets, such as the NeuroSky MindSet or Emotiv EPOC. The latter connects to the transmitter chip extracted from the RC Helicopter's remote control and issues flight commands and settings based on detections received from Puzzlebox Synapse. Software (including source code) is available for download from the project website: Note: Items in bold can be found in the Glossary and Link Index listed the final step of this Instructable.
Le cerveau des ados : comment ça marche ?
Les adolescents ont parfois des comportements imprévisibles qui peuvent les faire passer d’une attitude mature à une prise de risques parfois soldée d’accidents. Ces modifications semblent liées à des réarrangements dans les connexions cérébrales, en particulier le lobe frontal. Prenez un jeune garçon de 14 ans lors d’une expérience où il doit prendre une décision très simple que même un enfant de 8 ans réussit : quand il voit une lumière au coin de son champ visuel, il doit l’ignorer et continuer de regarder droit devant lui. Mais pour cela, il lui faut contrôler une impulsion naturelle qui le pousse à jeter un œil. En fait, le cerveau adolescent fonctionne comme celui des adultes, mais exécutant une tâche beaucoup plus difficile. Vers l’âge de 12 ans, le cerveau a la taille, les circonvolutions, le poids et les régions spécialisées d’un cerveau adulte. D’après Kendall Powell pour Nature- vol.442 - 24 Août 2006.
Puzzlebox Brainstorms
Brain 'entanglement' could explain memories - life - 12 January 2010
Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or "spooky action at a distance", could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that the electrical activity of neurons in separate parts of the brain can oscillate simultaneously at the same frequency – a process known as phase locking . The frequency seems to be a signature that marks out neurons working on the same task, allowing them to identify each other. Dietmar Plenz and Tara Thiagarajan at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, wondered whether more complicated signatures also link groups of neurons. In both cases, the researchers noticed that the voltage of the electrical signal in groups of neurons separated by up to 10 millimetres sometimes rose and fell with exactly the same rhythm. Perfect clones New Scientist Not just a website!
Mind Controlling Angry Birds
Using emotiv EPOC neuro-headset to control the Angry Birds game. Mapping mouse movement and mouse left button click using emotive EmoKey KeyMap and GlovePIE. GlovePIE is used to map the emotive "Push" to mouse left button click. emotiv headset connected to a windows version of angry birds, running on Intel's AppUp applications engine. using GlovePie which has a flavor that supports mapping to emotiv. pictures taken at KinnerNet 2011 Unconference.
