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Neuroscience at Burning Man
Copyright© 2016 Toni Riera “There will be dust” This year I made one of my dreams come true…I attended the Burning Man! For those who haven’t heard about it, Burning Man is a week long festival where a...
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Correcting Ocular Artifacts in EEG Signals
All of us who deal with EEG signals know how important artifacts are. EEG is one of the biological potentials with lowest amplitude (typically a few microvolts), which makes it highly sensitive to be...
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Enobio at the outer space. A step closer
Enobio at the outer space. This is a think I personally would love to see happen. Our device has already been in a lot of different scenarios so far. From the classical ones, considering this type of...
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The rise and decline of EEG, where are we now?
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a brain-state monitoring technique that allows for the recording of neural activity non-invasively. Since the first human EEG recording in 1924 by Hans Berger, the...
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From Barcelona to the world: Neuroelectrics in Boston
Boston skyline (Creative Commons license) It has already been two years since we landed in the US to open our new offices in Cambridge (Massachusetts). We chose the Boston-Cambridge environment because...
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Skiing for Research.
As soon as the weather in the mountains dips below 0 degrees I look forward to one of my favourite time of the year…winter. In Barcelona it’s not easy to find a snow, however only 200km from the city,...
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The best tech conference ever: Near future summit!
Neuroelectrics After years as an entrepreneur and after attending numerous conferences I have to admit that the conference that visionary Zem Joaquim and her team (thanks also to James Joaquin &...
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2nd Indian BCI and Neurostimulation Workshop and Malaysian tour
Before starting this post, I would like to share with you my own definition of Brain Computer interfaces (BCI): A system that uses some type of brain signal, analyzes this signal to extract features...
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Stimulus Presentation solutions for your EEG experiments
Neuroscientists usually need presenting stimuli as well as behavioral monitoring while recording brain activity. Several software solutions can be found out there that fit the minimum requirements an...
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So, what is finally an emotion?
We all feel happy when something nice happens in our life, we cry when we lose someone we love, we feel fear when we perceive that our life is in danger. But where do all these processes come from?...
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Source localization for EEG and why to work on cortical space
Electroencephalography allows for the recording of neural activity non-invasively by placing a set of electrodes on the scalp. While the fact that electroencephalography is non-invasive has clear...
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Artificial Neural Networks – The Rosenblatt Perceptron
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are machine learning models that have been inspired by the brain functioning. Through my next posts I will try to introduce artificial neural networks in a simple high...
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How to study consciousness in the electric brain?
Last April Starlab kicked-off the H2020 FET Open Luminous[1]. We are very proud to coordinate one of the 11 projects out of 800 selected for funding in last year’s Call of the FET Open[2] program, one...
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Free Will
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/13/the_controversial_science_of_free_will/ Next week I will attend a panel about Free Will, in which a group of neuroscientists, physicists and philosophers from Harvard...
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How does a baby’s brain work?
“Will you stay in our lovers’ story If you stay you won’t be sorry ‘Cause we believe in you” Kooks from Hunky Dory – David Bowie – 1971 David Bowie wrote Kooks when he received news of the arrival of...
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NE goes computational at ICANN
During the 6-9th of September, Barcelona was home to the 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks or ICANN, the annual conference that brings together researchers from two scientific...
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More than Humans? The Ethical Debate about Neuroenhancement
Can we force a suspect in a trial to undergo a scan of his/her brain to read his/her mind (e.g. a lie detector) and this must be objective evidence to the case? Can we force certain professionals...
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3 practical thoughts on why deep learning performs so well
The superior performance of deep learning relative to other machine learning methodologies has been commented in several forums and magazines in recent times. I would like to post today on three...
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Synchronization in nature generally and between the brain and periphery...
Nature has a beautiful tendency to coordinate things. If two pendulum clocks are hanging from the same beam, they start moving in the same way. In a similar way, women that spend time together have a...
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NYC Neuromodulation 2017
During January 13-15th 2017, New York was home to the third NYC Neuromodulation conference focused on technology and mechanisms for brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current...
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