There is growing interest for implementing tools to monitor cognitive performance in naturalistic and everyday work environments. An emerging field of research, known as Neuroergonomics, promotes the use of wearable and portable brain monitoring sensors to investigate cortical activity in a variety of human tasks out of the laboratory. Recent technological progress has allowed the […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of our imaginations and simmering in research labs since a group of computer scientists rallied around this topic at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956. They would give birth to the field of AI. In the decades since, AI has exploded, especially since 2015. Much of that has to do with […]
“Will you stay in our lovers’ story If you stay you won’t be sorry ‘Cause we believe in you” Kooks from Hunky Dory – David Bowie – 1971 David Bowie wrote Kooks when he received news of the arrival of his son Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie). I am going to be a father too! […]
This year at SfN we had 20 posters and 2 nano-symposia featuring tDCS in the title from a similar number of labs. On the face of it this is very good for the field that so many labs are exploring the technology but I think it’s interesting that only 3 directly address the parameters of […]
There are some urban legends, myths, memes, lies or whatever you want to call it … that are so much given for granted by certain people that it really amazes me. One of them is the so called 10% of the brain myth: On average humans only use 10% of their brain. Anothe version of […]
So you’ve got tons of mega bytes of EEG data from a big recording campaign with several volunteers. You persuaded them to wear your EEG recording device for 40 minutes, performing several mental tasks and receiving all types of external stimuli. You are now ready to process the data and confirm your breakthrough hypothesis. Well, […]
Neurokai’s services offer different solutions for industrial and academic researchers. Our Experience Lab service focuses on providing a custom solution for emotion recognition based on a multimodal system (EEG, ECG, GSR and facial). In order to develop our vision-based emotion recognition system, integrated within the multimodal one, we analysed several libraries for face detection. The […]
As I explained in one of my previous posts, a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a direct communication pathway connecting the brain to a computer or other external device. BCIs do not depend on the brain’s normal action pathways through peripheral nerves and muscles. This makes them the ideal technology to develop systems assisting or […]
Rest is a determining factor in human life, necessary and essential to stay productive the entire day. However, sometimes there are some external noises such as thunderstorms, music or even vehicles that keep us from sleeping. But … do these noises affect us all equally? Are we all aware of these sounds? A team of […]
In a previous post I talked about biometric systems and how electro-physiological signals such as the EEG and the ECG can be combined to obtain a reliable biometric system. Today I’d like to continue from where I left you last time. I specifically want to tell you about one of the main challenges such systems […]