DreamTeam/Reading
if anyone's interested, there is a nice writeup describing the Analog_EEG_Amp
Current Discussion
OpenSource Machine Learning Algs from NG @MIT
Consumer grade EEG used to see "P300" reponse and for thoes with a short attention span tldr
(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."
mind v brain, hobson v solms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation-synthesis_hypothesis
File:HobsomREMDreamProtoconsciousness.pdf
"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."
Berkeley Labs
Gallant Group
Walker Group
Palmer Group
Sleep Research
Comment on the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events
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
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/