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Consumer brain-computer interfaces, are we there yet?
In the last few weeks I’ve attended two very different events related to consumer BCIs; the “Wearables” session at MWC in Barcelona and the “BCI for the masses” panel at IBT in Tel Aviv. The wearables...
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Visual Perception
The most important component of a digital camera is the image sensor. Nowadays CCD and CMOS sensors monopolise the digital market. Those sensors capture a continuous signal—the light—which is converted...
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Neuroelectrics Asian Tour
During the last 3 weeks, I had the chance to travel to 3 amazing cities: Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The main objective was to attend the “1st International Brain Stimulation Conference”...
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10 best data sources for neuroinformatics research
- Neuro… what? What on earth is neuroinformatics… you mean, bioinformatics? Indeed neuroinformatics takes inspiration from bioinformatics, which refers to the combination of omics data (genomic,...
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Music from the brain: a new way of communication for patients with severe...
In this post I would like to introduce the concept of BrainPolyphony, a CRG Awards-founded project in which Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), Universitat de Barcelona, Mobilitylab, ASDI and Starlab...
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Get your brain fit
As I have explained in a previous post, we loose about 100 000 neurons per day. But this is not something to be really worried about, since the thing that really matters is the quality of their...
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Support Vector Machines: What they do and their best ‘trick’
In the past years machine learning has been used to address many different problems in neuroscience. When we talk about classification, several algorithms have been proposed for specific tasks. For...
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BCI Evolution-Exploring Opportunities
Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) based technology is thriving and has the potential of spreading into society by addressing the needs of various user groups under different application scenarios....
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Moving Neuroscience out of the lab
Recently in Starlab we conducted some recordings out of the lab. We equipped some volunteers with a bunch of EEG, ECG and GSR sensors along with a GoPro cam so we could capture electro-physiological...
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SONAR – BRAINPOLYPHONY
Since its first edition in 1994 Sonar Festival is definitely one of the electronic music festivals you cannot miss. For its sixth consecutive year in Barcelona, Sonar+D organized its famous hackathon...
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Can cortical networks be used to analyse EEG signals?
Broadly speaking, when we talk about analysing EEG signals, we are talking about how to use those time-varying signals to classify clinical conditions, behavioural events or predict responses (is the...
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Out-of-Body-Experiences and Neurosciences
“The easiest path is not always the best” Lobsang Rampa, The Third Eye Ever since I read when I was a teenager Lobsang Rampa’s The Third Eye, I have been fascinated with astral traveling, or as...
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On memory and why I (you) can’t remember what I (you) ate today
In psychology, memory is defined as the process by the brain stores and remembers information from the past. Classical psychological models see memory as a sequential process, where information is...
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Solving BCI bottlenecks for medical applications
Medical BCI-based applications are still limited. Neuroelectrics is addressing most critical issues so that they can be effectively adopted in clinical settings or in users’ homes. Carabalona et al....
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From the lab to the Market: The experience lab
The path from lab research to the market is a tough one. Nearly all funding research calls ask you to report on your exploitation plans, so you need to figure out how the outcomes of your research...
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Can Pollutants affect our Physiological Rhythms?
In all cities, the air we breathe contains emissions from motor vehicles, industry, heating and commercial sources which have sometimes travelled long distances from sources located far afield. Ambient...
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The future of our species at the CCCB and Brain Polyphony
New technologies constantly appear on our life. Who could have imagined that the competence of a classical music ‘tape’ and its accompanying radiocassette would have been integrated in our telephones?...
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8 reasons why affective computing should be multimodal and include EEG
Recently my colleagues Javier Acedo and Marta Castellano posted about ExperienceLab, Neurokai’s platform for characterizing the emotional response of users, and its very last presentation in an art...
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A window into the brain networks: magnetoencephalography (MEG) and...
Based on already published large evidence, non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques like tdCS represent very important approach for the improvement of abnormal brain functions in various...
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Imagine… Suddenly… Not being able to speak anymore!
Every 2 seconds someone in the world will have a stroke for the first time. There were almost 17 million incidences of first-time stroke worldwide in 2010. Stroke is one of the leading causes of...
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