High levels of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity in children can be the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common psychiatric disorder in children. ADHD appears in early childhood and its first line of treatment is often medication,…
EEG is one of the biological potentials with lowest amplitude (typically a few microvolts). It is highly sensitive and is likely to be contaminated by undesired non cerebral potentials coming from biological or external sources. These unwanted signals dirtying your…
In a recent Wired article the author looks at what they got right in Ender’s Game about communicating with aliens. Basically it comes down to this: communicating with an alien race would be very difficult if not impossible. Not in the technically…
As most of you may know P300 is one of the most studied and used event related potentials (ERP) in brain computer interfaces (BCI). This potential is usually elicited by the oddball paradigm in which series of low-probability target items…
At Neuroelectrics and Starlab we intend to stimulate activity in the areas we work in and we are convinced that one of the ways of achieving this is by publicly sharing our knowledge on different topics we find interesting. Following…
Is transcranial current stimulation (tCS, including direct current, tDCS, alternating current, tACS, or random noise stimulation tRNS) effective? Now that is a good and difficult question! Let me try to review recent developments. In a recent post I provided an…
To celebrate my 14th post in Neuroelectrics blog, I have decided to share 14 different ERP components and modalities with you. I presume you know a bit about ERP’s, or else please have a look at the basic ERP concepts…
Today I’m glad to introduce my colleague Anna Puig-Centelles to you. She is the author of today’s post, and very soon she will be joining the blog’s team! Last May, Starlab and HC2, among others, sponsored a TEDxBarcelona half-day event,…
During the last 6 months I’ve been exploring the Indian neuroscience market, and I have to say I’m quite impressed by all the neuroscience research going on in this amazing country. I had the chance to attend several conferences and …
At our recent HC2 Summer School we had a talk from Atau Tanaka on Embodied Sonic Interaction and how we might explore “possibilities of actions in the technologically augmented everyday”. An important part of this idea is the psychological basis…