Science news articles about 'eeg signals'

  • A baseball cap that reads your mind

    ... like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you`re getting too sleepy ...
  • Towards zero training for brain-computer interfacing

    ... – necessary for optimal performance – are significant. Second, EEG signals are highly subject-specific and vary considerably even between recording sessions of the same user ...
  • New study shows potential of rational drug design in schizophrenia

    ... assessment. Earlier research indicated that a reduction of signaling by the neurotransmitter GABA in circuits in an area of the brain ... to keep information in mind to guide behavior, and the EEG signal that accompanies working memory. Also, the drug ...
  • Groundbreaking Technique Reveals Modus Operandi of the Intact Living Brain

    ... maps four dimensions of brain data in EEG signals is providing a much-needed framework to understand a variety of pathological conditions. Excess or lack ...
  • That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory

    ... ," Paller said. When implicit recognition took place, EEG signals were recorded from a set of electrodes placed ... from those associated with conscious memory experiences. A unique signal of implicit recognition was seen a quarter of a second ...
  • 'Neurologger' reads bird brains in flight

    ... device, designed to record and store EEG signals. Those signals reflect the firing of neurons within the brain. Vyssotski said that a recording session with the device ...
  • How to read brain activity?

    ... as it is noninvasive and easy to apply. However, the interpretation of the EEG signals remains difficult. The main reason for this is that the exact relationship between the activities generated in the brain to that measured ...
  • New information on the development of the brain

    ... more efficiently rhythmic. This can be seen, for example, in the strengthening of the EEG signal during sleep. The mechanism adjusting the activity of the interneurones is related to the development phase which prepares ...
  • EEG predicts response to medication for schizophrenia

    ... the application of machine learning methods for analyzing EEG signals to predict the response to various treatments available for patients with other psychiatric conditions, specifically major ...
  • U of M researchers find learning in the visual brain

    ... . "We discovered that learning actually increased the strength of the EEG signal," Engel said. "Critically, the learning was visible in the initial EEG response that arose after a subject saw one of these patterns ...
  • Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants

    ... Center at Children's, and colleagues recorded resting EEG signals from 79 babies 6 to 24 ... ) -- a measure borrowed from chaos theory that quantifies the degree of randomness in a signal, from which characteristics of whatever is producing ...
  • Brain rhythm predicts real-time sleep stability, may lead to more precise sleep medications

    ... (MGH) Division of Sleep Medicine uses computerized EEG signal processing to detect subtle fluctuations ... with the brain." One of numerous neuroelectrical signals produced by the brain and detected by electroencephalography (EEG), the alpha rhythm ...
  • New way to detect epileptic seizures

    ... in a synchronous or rhythmic manner. As seizures progress, the EEG signals have very strong transitions. Seen ... , devised an algorithm to check the sharpness of the electrical signals on the EEG recordings as measured by their angle or slope ...
  • UMD brain cap technology turns thought into motion

    ... write that their Journal of Neurophysiology study indicated "that EEG signals can be used to study the cortical dynamics of walking ... in certain ways and match their own EEG signals with the normal signals." This could "retrain" healthy areas ...

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