News tagged with brain signal

Brainput system takes some brain strain off multi-taskers

(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Swiss scientists demonstrate mind-controlled robot (Update)

(AP) -- Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet

Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of ongoing research to understand how miniaturization affects ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A new method for the compression of complex signals presented

Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the University of Southern California have developed a compression method that improves the compacting of video signals, and which could be used to study ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New modeling of brain's circuitry may bring better understanding of Parkinson's disease

Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry that may provide a better understanding of how and why information ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How does DEET work? Study says it confuses insects (Update)

For almost 50 years, people have used insect repellents containing DEET. But scientists still argue about how the stuff works.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Put the brakes on using your brain power

German researchers have used drivers' brain signals, for the first time, to assist in braking, providing much quicker reaction times and a potential solution to the thousands of car accidents that are caused by human error.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Bifocals' in mangrove fish species discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A "four-eyed" fish that sees simultaneously above and below the water line has offered up a dramatic example of how gene expression allows organisms to adapt to their environment.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Noninvasive brain implant could someday translate thoughts into movement

(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain implant developed at the University of Michigan uses the body's skin like a conductor to wirelessly transmit the brain's neural signals to control a computer, and may eventually be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cellphone cancer warning falls lightly on US ears

(AP) -- News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cellphones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by Americans mostly with a shrug of the shoulder - one that's pinning ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New algorithm improves the way computers interpret readings of the brain’s electrical signals

Electroencephalography (EEG) records the electrical signals produced by the brain using an array of electrodes placed on the scalp. Computers use an algorithm called common spatial pattern (CSP) to translate ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New model of whiskers provides insight into sense of touch

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a model that will allow them to simulate how rats use their whiskers to sense objects around them. The model enables further research that may provide insight into the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Skywalker ensures optimal communication between neurons

Patrik Verstreken (VIB/K.U.Leuven, Belgium) has discovered the mechanism that ensures neurons can continue to send the right signals for long consecutive periods - a process that is disrupted in neurological diseases such ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Epilepsy-linked memory losss worries more patients than doctors

Patients with epilepsy worry more than their physicians do about the patients' potential memory loss accompanying their seizure disorder, according to a recent study.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain rhythm predicts real-time sleep stability, may lead to more precise sleep medications

A new study finds that a brain rhythm considered the hallmark of wakefulness not only persists inconspicuously during sleep but also signifies an individual's vulnerability to disturbance by the outside world. In their report ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast