Why do we Sleep?
“Why are we sleeping?” Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine 1968. The plain answer is that we do not know, but we do have some hypotheses. What it is clear is that sleeping and the brain are very closely related, so this…
Tag: science
SSVEP-based BCI managing your favorite music playlist!
EU-funded project AsTeRICS was born with the main objective of developing a support platform to facilitate and improve communication resources of people with motor disabilities, with no cognitive impairment, no perceptual limitations (neither visual nor auditory) and with basic skills…
tCS and EEG: an electrical golden braid?
EEG – electroencephalography – provides a tool to study brain activity. Neurons create electrical chatter while they go about their work, and this “noise” contains valuable information, providing a unique window to peer into brain function. Of course, we are…
The Physics of Neuroscience
My own meandering path to Neuroscience, as is pretty common, started with physics. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that a lot of what we do at Starlab and Neuroelectrics is what you might call applied Neuroscience….