Some years ago, the world was frozen with the “ice bucket challenge”. Liters of water and ice were dumped over thousands of people’s head to promote awareness and raise funds for the investigation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as…
EEG is in the Air “I’m looking up because that is where I want to be” Anonymous … most likely an aviator. Brain imaging techniques are usually cumbersome and require to be used in controlled lab environments to avoid the…
The superior performance of deep learning relative to other machine learning methodologies has been commented in several forums and magazines in recent times. I would like to post today on three reasons that, in my opinion, are the basis of…
Last April Starlab kicked-off the H2020 FET Open Luminous[1]. We are very proud to coordinate one of the 11 projects out of 800 selected for funding in last year’s Call of the FET Open[2] program, one of the most competitive…
Boston skyline (Creative Commons license) It has already been two years since we landed in the US to open our new offices in Cambridge (Massachusetts). We chose the Boston-Cambridge environment because of its vivid ecosystem of talent, industry and top…
New technologies constantly appear on our life. Who could have imagined that the competence of a classical music ‘tape’ and its accompanying radiocassette would have been integrated in our telephones? Or that human communication through long distances would depend on…
Recently my colleagues Javier Acedo and Marta Castellano posted about ExperienceLab, Neurokai’s platform for characterizing the emotional response of users, and its very last presentation in an art exhibition discussing technology-driven evolution of humans. As you might already know ExperienceLab…
The path from lab research to the market is a tough one. Nearly all funding research calls ask you to report on your exploitation plans, so you need to figure out how the outcomes of your research could go to the market. The truth…
Medical BCI-based applications are still limited. Neuroelectrics is addressing most critical issues so that they can be effectively adopted in clinical settings or in users’ homes. Carabalona et al. (2009) discussed several points that need to be considered when designing,…
In psychology, memory is defined as the process by the brain stores and remembers information from the past. Classical psychological models see memory as a sequential process, where information is first encoded into the brain, and only then can be…