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if anyone's interested, there is a nice writeup describing the Analog_EEG_Amp

Current Discussion

(discussed at meetup Wednesday 31 July 2013)
"Coherent EEG Indicators of Cognitive Binding During Ambiguous Figure Tasks" Klemm, Li, and Hernandez 2000
File:CoherentEEGAmbiguousFigureBinding.pdf
"We tested the hypothesis that perception of an alternative image in ambiguous figures would be manifest as high-frequency (gamma) components that become synchronized over multiple scalp sites as a "cognitive binding" process occurs."


art, dream, and eeg


mind v brain, hobson v solms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation-synthesis_hypothesis

"Hobson and McCarley originally proposed in the 1970s that the differences in the waking-NREM-REM sleep cycle was the result of interactions between aminergic REM-off cells and cholinergic REM-on cells.[4] This was perceived as the activation-synthesis model, stating that brain activation during REM sleep results in synthesis of dream creation.[1][1] Hobson's five cardinal characteristics include: intense emotions, illogical content, apparent sensory impressions, uncritical acceptance of dream events, and difficulty in being remembered."

random tangents

(following previous discussion) - we might select a few to study in more depth (... or not! Plenty more to explore - suggestions (random or otherwise) are welcome.

stereoscopic perception:


some (maybe) interesting background on Information Theory (cool title...)

Claude Shannon: "Communication in the Presence of Noise"
File:Shannon noise.pdf
"We will call a system that transmits without errors at the rate C an ideal system.
 Such a system cannot be achieved with any finite encoding process
 but can be approximated as closely as desired."

wikipedia etc quick reads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_synchronization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-related_potentials
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Spike-and-wave_oscillations
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Thalamocortical_oscillations

Previously

Masahero's EEG Device/IBVA Software

Puzzlebox - Opensource BCI Developers

Morgan from GazzLab @ MissionBay/UCSF


https://github.com/gazzlab

Let's ease into a lightweight "journal club" discussion with this technical report from NeuroSky.

Name: A user-friendly SSVEP-based brain-computer interface using a time-domain classifier, Luo A and Sullivan TJ 2010

URL: File:NeuroSkyVEP.pdf

Please add your comments & questions here.

Background Reading

http://nanosouffle.net/ (view into Arxiv.org)

Name: Hunting for Meaning after Midnight, Miller 2007

URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/neuro/attachments/20130501/4b992eb6/attachment-0002.pdf>

Name: Broken mirrors, Ram, VS, & Oberman, LM, 2006, Nov

URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/neuro/attachments/20130501/4b992eb6/attachment-0003.pdf>

Ramachandran Critique

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/11/06/whats-so-special-about-mirror-neurons/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773693/

Sleep/Dream Studies

http://www.cns.atr.jp/dni/en/publications/

NeuroSky Docs

File:NeuroSkyDongleProtocol.pdf

File:NeuroSkyCommunicationsProtocol.pdf