News tagged with eeg electrodes

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

Typing words with your brain: Portable, easy-to-wear mind speller

Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of Neuro- and Psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven today presented the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New device may enable limbs to be controlled by thought alone

(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable, plugless, brain-to-computer interface using electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes strapped to the scalp has been developed by a team in the US. The device may allow paraplegics ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

How to read brain activity?

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, scientists show what EEG can really tell us about how the brain functions.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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Wakey, wakey! Wake up refreshed with a brain-monitoring alarm clock

We all know the feeling, the short, sharp shock of waking to the sound of an alarm clock. Whether the traditional clattering metal bells, the incessant beeping of digital or the dulcet tones of today's radio news reader. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Uncovering the evolution of REM sleep: Ostriches sleep like platypuses

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain activity of ostriches in REM sleep is unique, alternating between fast, small waves - characteristic of REM sleep in other birds, and large, slow waves typical of those occurring ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Car makers testing driver wake-up from sensors in headrest

(PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers are looking at a technology that sets off an alarm for drivers if they are falling asleep at the wheel. Sensors embedded in the driver’s headrest would read the brain’s electrical ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo (w/ video)

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 22 | 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

Transforming robotics with biologically inspired learning models

I walked into the building and there was a human-sized robot waiting to greet me. 

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new method to localize the epileptic focus in severe epilepsy

The first two stereo-EEG explorations in Finland were carried out by neurosurgeons of the Epilepsy surgery team in Helsinki University Central Hospital this spring. The method reinforces other examination methods already ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscience: Blue in the face

The way that humans perceive each other is strongly affected by the configuration, contour, and complexion of faces. Researchers from Toyohashi Tech report the importance of facial color on neural responses ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Put your thinking cap on and type with your mind (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Guger Technologies, an Austrian-based company, has developed a computer interface that can work directly with the human brain. The interface allows a user to "type" short messages by staring ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants

A computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant's autism risk. It combines the standard electroencephalogram ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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