*eyes glaze over* @_@
HEY! A shiny new set of keys..how cool! oh...umm..you were going to play something? World of Warcraft? 2009/8/28 Larry Lyons <[email protected]>: > >>Hmm..what? >>What were you saying? > > Going to play research psychologist here for a bit. > > There is a fairly new technique designed to help people with attention > deficit (ADD)disorder and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) > called EEG Neurofeedback Training. IN a nutshell it involves training the > person to produce certain brainwave frequencies. These brainwave frequencies > are associated with increased attentional processing. Moreover in children at > least its associated with increases in academic achievement and a significant > reduction in ADD symptoms. In adults there are more mixed results. > > How does Neurofeedback Training relate to controlling the robot? From what I > gathered in watching the video it appears that the Sony researchers are using > the same methods as in Neurofeedback Training. > > As a graduate student in psychology I was trained to administer EEG's. > Initially we just put the electrodes on the subject's head. Later we used an > electrode cap, similar to what was shown in the photos. So I figure I know > about about what the researchers were saying. The fact that they were able to > get a subject to control a robot is a pretty impressive feat of programming. > Unfortunately neither the video or article said what frequency bands they > used for the controls. Depending on what frequency bands they used, it would > be very interesting to see how the person behaved later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303082 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
