Recent advances in scalp electroencephalography (EEG) as a neuroimaging tool have now allowed researchers to overcome technical challenges and movement restrictions typical in traditional neuroimaging studies. Fortunately, recent mobile EEG devices have enabled studies involving cognition and motor control in natural environments that require mobility, such as during art perception and production in a museum setting, and during locomotion tasks.
The provided EEG data were acquired from sixteen healthy young adults (age range 22 - 30 years) with no history of neurological, physical, or psychiatric illness. All the participants were naive BCI users who had not participated in any related experiments before. Informed consents were received from all participants. The study has been approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee of Nazarbayev University.
This material is associated with the PhD Thesis of Javier Olias (which is supervised by Sergio Cruces) and the article:
“EEG Signal Processing in MI-BCI Applications with Improved Covariance Matrix Estimators”
by J.Olias, R. Martin-Clemente, M.A. Sarmiento-Vega and S. Cruces,
which was accepted in 2019 by IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Our state of arousal can significantly affect our ability to make optimal decisions, judgments, and actions in real-world dynamic environments. The Yerkes-Dodson law, which posits an inverse-U relationship between arousal and task performance, suggests that there is a state of arousal that is optimal for behavioral performance in a given task. Here we show that we can use on-line neurofeedback to shift an individual's arousal from the right side of the Yerkes-Dodson curve to the left toward a state of improved performance.
The proposed signals are used for electromagnetic-based stroke classification. Six realistic head phantom computed from MRI scans, is surrounded by an antenna array of 16 dipole antennas distributed uniformly around the head. These antennas are deployed in a fixed circular array around the head, at a distance of approximately 2-3 mm from the head. A Gaussian pulse covering the bandwidth from 0:7 to 2 GHz is emitted from each of the antennas, sequentially, while all of the antennas capture the scattered signals. Since 16 antennas were used, there are a total of 256 channel signals (i.e.
Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) technology was deployed at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO) in Monterrey, México, in an effort to collect Electroencefalographic (EEG) data from large numbers (N = ~1200) of participants and allow the study of the brain’s response to artistic stimuli, as part of the studies developed by University of Houston (TX, USA) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (MTY, México).
