by Dr. Tracy Warbrick Application Specialist EEG-fMRI (Brain Products) We are very proud that our BrainAmp MR series of amplifiers is the gold standard for combined EEG-fMRI measurements. While the BrainAmps themselves continue to be as robust and reliable as ever, we decided that the user manual was in need of an update. We are…
by Dr. Christina Lavallee Scientific Consultant (Brain Products) In the last Press Release (issue 3/2017), we proudly revealed the R-Net, a sponge-based electrode system for research applications. Since the introduction, we have received positive feedback and a lot of interest from our customers worldwide. Today, we give you more details about our newest product. There…
by Dr. Thomas Emmerling Scientific Consultant (Brain Products) We were proud and excited to reveal a new product at Neuroscience 2017. The R-Net is based on saltwater sponges and passive Ag/AgCl electrodes that are held in place with a durable and flexible silicone structure. It allows for rapid preparation and high recording flexibility. For some…
by Ratko Petrovic, M.Sc., Project Manager & Software Developer (Brain Products) and Dr. David Medine, Software Developer (Brain Products) LiveAmp joins the Brain Products family of amplifiers (BrainAmp, actiCHamp and V-Amp) that can be used by the open-source community. This article shows how to use LiveAmp in OpenViBE, BCI2000 and LSL open-source frameworks. The table…
by Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christian Beste Cognitive Neurophysiology Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine TU Dresden (Germany) The last years have seen an overwhelming amount of research aiming to disentangle the neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed behavior and cognitive control processes. In that regard, the basal ganglia have attracted much interest.…
by Edmund Wascher & Stephan Getzmann IfADo-Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany Abstract Our recent study “Age-sensitive effects of enduring work with alternating cognitive and physical load. A study applying mobile EEG in a real life working scenario” (Wascher et al., 2016) demonstrates how mobile EEG can be utilized not…
by Dominik Dietze and Pierluigi Castellone Product Manager and Sales Manager (Brain Products) When we first introduced the 16 channels actiCAP Xpress back in the spring of 2014 the product was received very positively from the research community. Its innovative design resolved many of the issues that existing products had and therefore, naturally, everybody was…
by Barbara C. N. Müller1 & Markus Paulus2 1Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Address correspondence to Barbara Müller, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands, phone: +31(0)24 361 59 44, fax: +31(0)24 361 26 77, e-mail: B.Muller[at]bsi.ru.nl … Abstract In a…
by Stefanie Rudrich Marketing Manager (Brain Products)… A research group from University of Houston presented a novel methodology for the neural decoding of intent from freely-behaving infants during unscripted social interaction with an actor. Neural activity was acquired using actiCAP EEG electrodes. Kinematic data was collected with inertial measurement units and supplemented with synchronized video…
by Jose L ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal and Atilla Kilicarslan University of Houston (USA), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering This article reviews research at the University of Houston on the design of non-invasive and reliable brain-machine interface (BMI) systems for the control of powered exoskeletons for restoration and rehabilitation of gait in persons with paraplegia and…