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Dec 18, 20143 min read
What is QEEG?
Non-invasive EEG recording techniques consist of the recording and interpretation of voltage fluctuations generated by the brain along...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
Big Neuroscience
In case you missed it, which I doubt if you are reading this blog, there have been 2 recent announcements that will have a profound...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
This is my EEG, don’t you know who I am yet? Using EEG as Biometrics
When you think about biometrics, futuristic movies like Minority Report or Gattaca might come to your mind. However, the use of...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
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...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
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...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
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,...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
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...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
What is emotion elicitation and how to achieve it
In my last post I talked about how we could apply machine learning techniques to make a computer think. What I didn't quite cover last...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
Communication with vegetative patients using EEG, are they really there?
Vegetative state, also known as wakeful unconsciousness, exists when a person is awake, but supposedly totally unaware. A person in a...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
4 Awesome Brain Imaging Techniques
Brain science has made huge advances in the past decades, and our understanding of the brain, far from being complete, has increased...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
From Artificial and Computational Intelligence to Machine Learning (with some EEG analysis examples)
As I advanced in my last post I will try to follow up my description of the Machine Learning family by focusing today on Machine Learning...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
Machine learning applied to affective computing (or how to teach a machine to feel)
In our last rendezvous on, 'Affective computing (or how your PC will know how you feel)', I introduced different methodologies for...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
The Unknown History of Brain Science
Brain Science is older than you might expect. Of course, many of the first brain theories were wrong, but you might be surprised by the...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
How To Understand The Machine Learning Family
In former posts I have given a quick-and-dirty overview of Machine Learning and related methodologies: “what most people call machine...
Dec 18, 20144 min read
tDCS and Stroke: What We Know So Far (Jan 2013)
In this blog post I review – briefly and by no means exhaustively – some of the literature on the use of tDCS in stroke. This is of...
Dec 18, 20143 min read
ADHD Neurofeedback: helping your children to stay focused!
It is not rare for some children to show difficulty keeping their attention on tasks like playing activities, for them to be forgetful,...
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