WATCH YOUR OWN BRAIN IN ACTION!
by DGFPBD.
A team of neuroscientist and Software developers have created a way for you to watch your own brain in action – to literally watch your thoughts flash before your eyes.
The new system incorporates brain scanning, brain recording and virtual reality systems to take you into a journey into your own brain in real-time.
The system was developed by computational neuroscientist Christian Kothe and Tim Mullen of the University of California San Diego, inconjuction with Adam Gazzaley a neuroscientist at the University of California San Francisco, using a virtual reality headset from the Oculus Rift gaming company.
Gazzaley said, “We’ve never been able to step inside the structures of the brain and see it in this way. it’s bio-feedback on the next level.”
In the demo, Yvette, wife of Phillip Rosedale – creator of the virtual reality game ‘Second Life’, was strapped with a cap studded with EEG electrodes that measure difference is electric potential to record brain activity. An MRI – Magnetic Resonance Image – of her brain was also previously taken to reveal the complex neural structures.
Rosedale then wore a pair of virtual reality headsets in which he could explore his wife’s brain in 3D as flashes of her thoughts got feed from the EEG. An audience watched what he saw through a big screen projection.
It was not possible to tell what Yvette was actually thinking but the EEG signals merely painted a picture of her brain activity more broadly. It is hoped that with further study, researchers could get close to decoding brain signals and displaying them on Virtual Reality Systems.
Being able to watch your brain in action is not only exciting but has tremendous therapeutic potential in helping traumatic brain injury patients visualize how their injury has affected their brain function and perhaps learn to go round the problem.
The designers of the system visualize a day when people will be able to interact with other people in a deeper way that mirrors their inner state of thinking and thought life.http://dgfpbd.blogspot.com
by DGFPBD.
A team of neuroscientist and Software developers have created a way for you to watch your own brain in action – to literally watch your thoughts flash before your eyes.
The new system incorporates brain scanning, brain recording and virtual reality systems to take you into a journey into your own brain in real-time.
The system was developed by computational neuroscientist Christian Kothe and Tim Mullen of the University of California San Diego, inconjuction with Adam Gazzaley a neuroscientist at the University of California San Francisco, using a virtual reality headset from the Oculus Rift gaming company.
Gazzaley said, “We’ve never been able to step inside the structures of the brain and see it in this way. it’s bio-feedback on the next level.”
In the demo, Yvette, wife of Phillip Rosedale – creator of the virtual reality game ‘Second Life’, was strapped with a cap studded with EEG electrodes that measure difference is electric potential to record brain activity. An MRI – Magnetic Resonance Image – of her brain was also previously taken to reveal the complex neural structures.
Rosedale then wore a pair of virtual reality headsets in which he could explore his wife’s brain in 3D as flashes of her thoughts got feed from the EEG. An audience watched what he saw through a big screen projection.
It was not possible to tell what Yvette was actually thinking but the EEG signals merely painted a picture of her brain activity more broadly. It is hoped that with further study, researchers could get close to decoding brain signals and displaying them on Virtual Reality Systems.
Being able to watch your brain in action is not only exciting but has tremendous therapeutic potential in helping traumatic brain injury patients visualize how their injury has affected their brain function and perhaps learn to go round the problem.
The designers of the system visualize a day when people will be able to interact with other people in a deeper way that mirrors their inner state of thinking and thought life.http://dgfpbd.blogspot.com
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