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1st Place Winner BCI Award 2018: Restoring Functional Reach-to-Grasp using Implanted FES and Intracortical BCIs
A. Bolu Ajiboye and Robert F. Kirsch of Case Western Reserve University, USA, in collaboration with Leigh R. Hochberg of Harvard Medical…
2nd Place Winner of the BCI Award 2018: BCI-Based Language Training for Patients with Chronic Aphasia
Aphasia refers to an impairment of language abilities, and is usually caused by a stroke in the left hemisphere. About 20…
3rd Place Winner of the BCI Award 2018: Brain-To-Speech
To investigate and decode articulatory speech production, Christian Herff and his team used Electrocorticography (ECoG) and presented the first direct synthesis of…
Interview with BCI Award 2016 Winner Gaurav Sharma
The International Annual BCI-Research Award is one of the top accolades in BCI research. In 2016, Gaurav Sharma from Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio…
Team BrainTweakers won Gold in the BCI Race at Cybathlon 2016
The Cybathlon took first place on October 8th, 2016 at the ETH Zurich where people with disabilities competed side by side at…
Brain Painting for Graduation – Interview with Lena Perseus
Lena Perseus is 18 years old and alumna of the Alpine Mittelschule in Davos in Switzerland. For her final exam, she wrote…
The Unlimited Possibilities of Wearable EEG
Wireless EEG and biosignal acquisition systems are becoming more important in Brain-Computer Interface research, especially when studies tend to take…
Music and The Mind at McMaster LIVELab
Dave Thompson works as a technician in the LIVELab at the McMaster Institute for Music and The Mind (MIMM) in Hamilton,…
When Robots replace Humans – Interview with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the…
How High-Altitude Affects Cognitive Functions
The EEG (Electroencephalogram) can be used as a method to study high-altitude sickness and its influence on the body condition…