What is involved in a Brain Machine Interface (BMI; also called Brain Computer Interface or BCI) set-up? Here is a primer on paradigms for BMI…
A Primer on Brain Machine Interface
Lab Talk
Electrical Field Potentials from Mouse to Human
There are many differences between mouse and human brains. How does this play out in the field potential signals such as LFP and EEG? The…
Neuronal Avalanches: What are They and What do They Mean?
Neuronal avalanches are a structure of organization of cascades of synchronized of activity in the cortex that have several surprising implications for how we understand…
From Neuron to Brain: The Perils of a Reductionist Approach
Much of neuroscientific research on brain signals is focused on studying the spiking activity of neurons in a dish. Can this really tell us how…
Brain Waves, Sine Waves and the Fourier Transform
The most popular method of analyzing brain signals is to decompose it into its component sinusoids using the fourier transform. However a non-sinusoidal physiology poses…