EEG anyone ?

Did You know You can build an EEG machine in your kitchen ? Click on the bully above. But how to explain that flashing this logo always evokes a large P300 in members of psychophysiology.be ? Ask Jo....

Decade of the Mind: DOT.M

After the decade of the Brain, the time has come to take it a step further and enter the DOT.M: decade of the Mind. After all Brain and Mind both constitute the pond where neuroscientists and neurophysiologists like to swim (or go fishing). In the Fall of 2007, ten neuroscientists published a proposal for an interdisciplinary research initiative, the "Decade of the Mind," that would focus on four "broad but intertwined areas": mental health, research on high-level cognitive functions, education, and computational applications (such as intelligent machines). I review the basic ideas behind the proposal and discuss the four proposed areas of research. I argue that for research on higher cognitive functions and in particular, for research and practice in education, the "Decade of the Mind" is a welcome initiative that may change our lives for the better. Therefore, the proposal, which is scientifically interdisciplinary in nature, has to be politically international. Get the pdf here

Dorsal streams

It is known that in schizophrenia there is something very wrong (at a very early stage order 80-120 millisec) with the magnocellular part and dorsal stream of the visual information processing pathway (cfr John Foxe). Some very intelligent neuropsychiatrists have started to use this knowledge to forge a neurophysiological tool that has the potential to increase the diagnostic quality of their neurophysiological investigations using very robust and simple techniques such as visual evoked potentials. Their effort is now supported by no less then the RIKEN institute where anatomicallty the subdivisions between the ventral (parvocellular) and dorsal (magnocellular) part of visual information pathway at V1 is demonstrated. This is important because it proves that in schizophrenia - long thought of as a pure psychological disorder- very early structural brain anomalies can be demonstrated. early abnormalities in the time window of 100-120 millisec can be captured by neurophysiology.

Toy soldier

From Emotiv. Is supposed to pick up EEG ? What about artefacts ?

EEG on a Chip

IMEC did it..

I am singing in the (b) rain...

Song birds communicate by singing and learn their songs through imitation. Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in humans. Prather et al. now show that mirror-like neurons also exist in birds and are involved in song learning.

read on in "nature review neurosciences"

These findings show that there is a remarkable resemblance between HVCx 'auditory-motor' neurons in birds and 'visual-motor' mirror neurons in the frontoparietal cortex in monkeys, which respond when a monkey performs an action or sees that same action being performed. It has been suggested that in humans mirror neurons might have a role in language acquisition, and the findings of Prather et al. provide the first evidence that learned communication, at least in birds, might indeed involve the activation of mirror-like neurons. ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Prather, J. F., Peters, S., Nowicki, S. & Mooney, R. Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. Nature 451, 305–310 (2008)

Home of IDA

Meet IDA..... a brief encounter

Google Graphic search

It seems like Google has activated his "dorsal stream" because from now on while performing a graphic search You not only get an answer to "what" (ventral stream) but also as to "where" (dorsal stream). Is Google just mimicring human conscious vision by integrating Google maps or has it at last gained some kind of inner network consciousness ?

Could somebody please wake up a local terminator !

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Between math and Biology

Sunday morning thee and cake spiced with some very interesting bio-mathematical or physicobiological philosophy...eat in small portions. if You are interested more topics here...

Pay attention please

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See it at home

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Let the real Brainiacs please stand up....

Where in my Brain did I put those politics... hippocampus or amagdala ?

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Cognitive Neuroscience

A classic...

The first half second

Recent advances in the study of visual cognition and consciousness have dealt primarily with steady-state properties of visual processing, with little attention to its dynamic aspects. The First Half Second brings together for the first time the latest research on the dynamics of conscious and unconscious processing of visual information, examining the time-course of visual processes from the moment a stimulus is presented until it registers in a behavioral response or in consciousness a few hundred milliseconds later. The contributors analyze this "first half second" of visual processing -- known as its microgenesis -- from a variety of perspectives, including neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychophysics, psychology, and neural network modeling.The book first treats conceptual, methodological, and historical issues and provides an integrated review of findings from recent studies on the neural underpinnings of consciousness. The book then turns to neurophysiological correlates of dynamic processing in vision, highlighting the temporal dimension of functional distinctions; visual masking and what it can tell us about the operation of both normal and abnormal brains; the dynamics of attentional mechanisms from electrophysiological, behavioral, and modeling perspectives; and temporal characteristics of object and feature perception. Finally, drawing on the foundations laid in earlier chapters, the book elaborates further on the dynamic relation of conscious and unconscious processes in vision. The First Half Second fills the need for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the study of the dynamic aspects of visual processing and, with its rich empirical and theoretical findings, charts promising directions for future research.About the EditorsHaluk Ögmen is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, and a member of the University of Houston Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science.Bruno G. Breitmeyer is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston and a member of the University of Houston Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science.