Informative Psychometric Filters

Want to know what that is ? read about it....http://www.mediafire.com/?fztlumdqegp (it's free but not easy). Thanks to Robert Gregson and the house of ANU...

Did You hear me move ?

Synesthesia is a wonderful thing. Christofer Koch at Caltech has now discoverd another variant that You can test for yourself. Hearing movement. Click here and become a newly discovered synestheet. A nice movement towards fame and fortune. PS: I heard that ! Next to come: did You hear me thinking ...:-) (strange ticking sound ... could be Your hard disk though) TEST

Fly away

The real SWAT team is housed at CalTech.

Read their high flying story here. Even tiny fly brains have fascinating and fast reaction time capacities.

Detecting deception

When is a clinical study not a clinical study ? When it is a seeding trial. This "smart" invention by the commercial money making wizzards of large farma compagnies is aimed at creating a wave of goodwill in family physicians, specialists and patients knitted together in a web of positive anecdotes and case stories about marvelous effects and miraculous healing powers. It steers the hands that makes the prescriptions. It is targeted to precede the launch of a maior money maker blockbuster and fuel its revenu to record heights in a short time span. Beware of this form of intellectual abduction and do not let them turn our naive goodwill become the launch platform for this kind of very unethical behavior . Read the prevention manual

The Moral Brain

Although wise men came from the east (so they say), people in search of wisdom often can find it in their own backyard. The "moral brain" is a fine example of such a Ghent University based top notch research group (Prof Jan Verplaetse, Prof Braeckman et al..) where the waters of filosophy, ethics, neuroscience and social psychology mix and mirror a refreshing and inspiring knowledge about this very essential element of human nature. A very fine tribute to Darwin, indeed.

Their website and blog is worthwhile to visit and both provide lots of literature and info on the topic. Courses and conferences. I ordered the DVD .

A must visit for every Darwinist and indeed for every neuroscientist, be it neurologist, psychologist or psychiatrist who is genuinly interested in this new entry into the core of human nature , the essence of man as a moral and social entity.

EEG book prof Ulrich

Surf to this site. Click on literature.

Neurofeedback training

Learn it from the best. A hands on training by dr. Van den Bergh.

Treasure found !

All psychiatrists and neuropsychiatrist who claim to be interested in EEG should take a look at this little (free !!) gem. A very interesting work by Prof Ulrich (free Univ Berlin). Well perhaps "taking a look" is an understatement and reading, studying and re-reading would be most appropriate because this was written by a wise and experienced man. Do not let this knowledge wave pass You by. It was pointed out by Dr. Werner Van den Bergh. Thanks Werner, the community owes You. BTW Werner is author of a have-to-have book on Neurofeedback in ADHD.

EEG book by Prof Ulrich : Download it here:http://www.mediafire.com/?vyzntpbedw2

or click on the map

The book by Dr Van den Bergh (Dutch only). Click on the image.

Fancy fancy displays ?

Brainloop

A bot called Jackson ?

Try to control this with BCI without massive artefacts from ROFL... (rolling on the floor with laughter). In case You would put your stoicism to the test take a look at the mule. or the dog. Unless You are more into snakes ? there a whole robot zoo out there, waiting to take over.

A new rat on the Blog

our kind of rat....View here

BCI on YouTube

Some nice video's here. Watch for the Gent BCI: soon to come in a theatre not far from You..

Cooperation beats Competition

From time to time we have to work together on a project, a presentation, a talk or a document... whatever. Moving to places and meeting shedules are often hard to align and a lot can be done over the web. There is of course videoconferencing (some exciting developments coming along..) but this backboard is fine to. Try it... it's free

Where "R" my data ?

Read this book and You will find out.

Mind and Magic

Magic and Neuroscience have much in common. They are both uncanningly fascinating ! Read more in nature review neurosciences.

Who turned out the light ?

After stopping the light (cfr radiant Cool inthis blog) scientists have now found metamaterials with negative refraction index (that actual band the light back). Imagine what visual evoked potentials will look like ?

Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature.

This technology could lead to microscopes able to peer more deeply and clearly into living cells. And the same kind of structures might one day be adapted to bend light in other unnatural ways, creating a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak. "This is definitely a big step toward that idea," said Jason Valentine, a graduate student and a lead author of a paper being published online on Wednesday (cfr ref below) by the journal Nature. But scientists are still far from designing and manufacturing such a cloak. The work involves materials that have a property known as negative refraction, which means that they essentially bend light backward. Once thought to be pure fantasies, these substances, called metamaterials, have been constructed in recent years, and scientists have shown they can bend long-wavelength microwaves. Negative refractive materials can in principle lead to fantastical illusions; someone looking down at a fish in a pool of negative refractive liquid would see the fish swimming in the air above

read on....

Nature , | doi:10.1038/nature07247; Received 20 March 2008; Accepted 11 July 2008; Published online 11 August 2008

Gent on top of the world

Read the explanation (watch the movie), download the software and become master of the earth. PS Check out the other software of peter Moor. Y'll like "moor".

Jumping dots

See how they jump .....(nice rivalry type illusion)

Dots at MIT.

6D anyone ?

Seeing is believing ... no shadow of a doubt. See with Your own eyes at MIT.

PS: We shall have to reframe these kind of phrases once MIT 's 6D is out there.

Have "today" a "twodie" preview here...

Free EDF viewer

The best things are not always free but thios EDF viewer is a handy tool no neurolab should be without. Quick and easy to have a fast peek at EEG- EDF traces. Free to dwonload after registration.

Let the real Frankenstein please rise

As send by Greg (thanks)

It looks like a group of researchers from the University of Reading are making a solid run at the title of mad scientists of the year (in the best sense, of course), with them now boasting that they've developed a robot that's controlled by a "biological brain." That's not quite the sci-fi sight you may be imagining, however (though it's close), with it instead made up of some 300,000 neurons taken from the neural cortex of a rat fetus, which are contained in multi electrode array that packs 60 electrodes to pick up the signals generated by the cells and, in turn, control the robot. According to the researchers, they are particularly interested in using the robot to study how memories are formed in the brain, and how the brain stores specific data, which they hope will lead to a better understanding of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, stokes, and other brain injuries.

Light stop

Get the video here.

Radiant Cool

Freeze the light in omen.. squeeze it in a moment.. Now better then EMINEM... physics Thanks to Paul for flipping the switch

In Tiny Supercooled Clouds, Physicists Exchange Light And Matter

Technique may give scientists a new degree of control over fiber-optic communication and quantum information processing

Cambridge, Mass. - February 7, 2007 - Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the light pulse into matter that travels between the two locations and is subsequently changed back to light.

Matter, unlike light, can easily be manipulated, and the experiments provide a powerful means to control optical information. The findings, published this week by Harvard University researchers in the journal Nature, could present an entirely new way for scientists and engineers to manipulate the light pulses used in fiber-optic communications, the technology at the heart of our highly networked society.

"We demonstrate that we can stop a light pulse in a supercooled sodium cloud, store the data contained within it, and totally extinguish it, only to reincarnate the pulse in another cloud two-tenths of a millimeter away," says Lene Vestergaard Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Hau and her co-authors, Naomi S. Ginsberg and Sean R. Garner, found that the light pulse can be revived, and its information transferred between the two clouds of sodium atoms, by converting the original optical pulse into a traveling matter wave which is an exact matter copy of the original pulse, traveling at a leisurely 200 meters per hour. The matter pulse is readily converted back into light when it enters the second of the supercooled clouds -- known as Bose-Einstein condensates -- and is illuminated with a control laser.

"The Bose-Einstein condensates are very important to this work because within these clouds atoms become phase-locked, losing their individuality and independence," Hau says. "The lock-step nature of atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate makes it possible for the information in the initial light pulse to be replicated exactly within the second cloud of sodium atoms, where the atoms collaborate to revive the light pulse."

Within a Bose-Einstein condensate -- a cloud of sodium atoms cooled to just billionths of a degree above absolute zero -- a light pulse is spatially compressed by a factor of 50 million. The light drives a controllable number of the condensate's roughly 1.8 million sodium atoms to enter into quantum superposition states with a lower-energy component that stays put and a higher-energy component that travels between the two Bose-Einstein condensates. The amplitude and phase of the light pulse stopped and extinguished in the first cloud are imprinted in this traveling component and transferred to the second cloud, where the recaptured information can recreate the original light pulse.

The period of time when the light pulse becomes matter, and the matter pulse is isolated in space between the condensate clouds, could offer scientists and engineers a tantalizing new window for controlling and manipulating optical information; researchers cannot now readily control optical information during its journey, except to amplify the signal to avoid fading. The new work by Hau and her colleagues marks the first successful manipulation of coherent optical information.

"This work could provide a missing link in the control of optical information," Hau says. "While the matter is traveling between the two Bose-Einstein condensates, we can trap it, potentially for minutes, and reshape it -- change it -- in whatever way we want. This novel form of quantum control could also have applications in the developing fields of quantum information processing and quantum cryptography."

Ginsberg, Garner, and Hau's work was supported by the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, the National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Radiant Cool

Freeze the light in omen.. squeeze it in a moment.. Now better teh EMI

Oh CNN ? Or O NN

Just for good fun..

On Trial

For 30 days free evaluation Systat (Sigmaplot). Only 45 Mbyte.

Cool Cuil

Whaw... cool search engine

Member ? Rember ? Remember ?

Nature has the story about two new pharma entries against tau and betaamyloid. Also a story in the sidelines about the way from research and lab towards business.

ehealth in belgium

uh-e-health ? What politicians tell us about ehealth: it's safe, it's guaranteed, it's secure, it cannot be abused.... ...............and sure politicians are all honorable men ! Read this report about it's "deployment" ?? in the USA

"" While lawmakers debate how best to oversee the shift to computerized records, some insurers have already begun testing systems that tap into not only prescription drug information, but also data about patients held by clinical and pathological laboratories.""

Read on.... read here (dutch)

Now You see it ..No You don't

Cloacking technology is moving is...from NASA techbriefs and the good old jet propulsion Lab at Pasadena. BTW Nasa is 50 years young ! Congratulations.

The sinus Monster

Avoid nightmares and read the manual here

ASET: an important asset in EEG

Check out this site. Every country should have one (if they really care about EEG).