by Dr. Alex Kreilinger Strategic Product Manager (Brain Products) This first part of the hyperscanning series introduces our current gold standard hardware solution for this application: the BrainAmps. Combining multiple BrainAmps allows using separate ground and reference channels for each participant and provides perfect clock synchronization in a single EEG recording file. Hyperscanning refers to…
by Dr. Christina Florence Lavallée Strategic Product Manager (Brain Products) Labs, universities and other research facilities are starting to re-open after the coronavirus lockdown, which means that many of you may be able to start recording EEG data once again. In order to support you in keeping yourselves and your participants as safe as possible,…
by Dr. Christina Florence Lavallée Strategic Product Manager (Brain Products) The Brain Products Young Scientist Award is presented each year to recognize a young researcher’s outstanding publication in the field of EEG-based psychophysiological research. The winner is chosen by an independent jury and was awarded to Esra Al this year. Although we could not present…
by Dr. Olave E. Krigolson Centre for Biomedical Research University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2. P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC E-mail address: krigolson[at]uvic.ca Acknowledgement This user research article summarizes our publication “Alcohol Hangover Impacts Learning and Reward Processing Within the Medial-Frontal Cortex”. Howse AD, Hassall CD, Williams CC, Hajcak G, Krigolson OE.…
by Surjo R. Soekadar1 and Marius Nann1 1Applied Neurotechnology Laboratory Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University Hospital of Tübingen Calwerstr. 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany Acknowledgement This user research article summarizes our publication “To jump or not to jump: The Bereitschaftspotential required to jump into 192-meter abyss”, Marius Nann, Leonardo G. Cohen, Lüder Deecke, Surjo R. Soekadar, bioRxiv 255083; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/255083. Short Abstract Self-initiated voluntary acts,…
by Prof. Dr. Stefan Debener, Neuropsychology Lab, University of Oldenburg, Germany and Dr. Awais Kamboh, Neuroinformatics Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan For decades, Pakistan has been suffering from earthquakes, floods, poverty, political instability, a fragile infrastructure, terrorism and regional violence. Indeed, it has been…
by Tomoki Arichi1,2 and Lorenzo Fabrizi3 1Centre for the Developing Brain, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK 2Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK 3Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1 E6BT,…
by Shah NJ1,2,3,4,5, Rajkumar R1,3,6 ,Neuner I1,3,6* 1Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, INM-4, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany 2Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 11, INM-11, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany 3JARA – BRAIN – Translational Medicine, Germany 4Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 5Monash Biomedical Imaging, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 6Department of…
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 Matt Gaidica PhD Candidate Neuroscience Graduate Program University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) Contact: mgaidica@med.umich.edu http://gaidi.ca Introduction Human achievement at high altitude requires the performance of skilled behaviors with cognitive clarity. To better understand how the brain changes at high altitude during a motor task we used the actiCAP Xpress Bundle to characterize motor…