UNICORN BCI CORE-8 EEG RECORDINGS IN HUMANS, DOGS AND HORSES
Revolutionizing Neural Interfaces: EEG Data Visualization and Signal Processing in Python
VERSATILE EEG SIGNAL PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is a powerful 24-bit, 8-channel EEG and BCI device designed for versatility and ease of use. It attaches magnetically to various base stations, which can be configured for diverse recording scenarios on humans, dogs, horses, or other subjects. Equipped with multiple electrode options, the device adapts seamlessly to experimental needs.
Gold cup electrodes, lightweight and compact, are ideal for sleep recordings or placement within animal fur. Alternatively, the g.SAHARA Hybrid electrodes, featuring eight pins, support both dry and wet recordings, with pins long enough to penetrate layers of hair, providing excellent contact in challenging conditions. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is available with sampling rates of 250 Hz. This suits most EEG applications, while the 1000 Hz option excels in ECG and EMG recordings.
- The device streams data into g.HIsys, a robust rapid prototyping environment for real-time signal processing, EEG data visualization, and storage.
- Additionally, the g.Pype SDK Software Development Kit for Python, compatible with macOS and Windows, enables advanced EEG signal processing, visualization, and feature extraction, providing a versatile, open-source alternative to traditional MATLAB workflows.
| Wireless EEG recordings |
| 8 DC-coupled analog input channels with 24 Bit resolution |
| Device available with 250 Hz sampling rate per channel |
| Hybrid electrodes for wet and dry measurements |
| Oversampling to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio |
| Gold cup electrodes for sleep and flexible recordings |
| Flexible positioning for EEG electrodes |
| g.HIsys Professional Software |
| g.Pype SDK Software Development Kit for Python |
| g.Pype is compatible with Windows and macOS |
| Sensitivity | ± 150 mV |
| Resolution | 24 Bit |
| Sampling Frequency | 250 Hz |
| Battery time (measurement mode / connection mode) | > 6 hours / > 9 hours |
| Highpass/Lowpass | 0 / 15.92 kHz |
| Supply | Lithium-ion polymer accumulator |
| Charging time | 2:40 hours |
| Weight | 23 g |
| Dimension | 30 x 50 x 16 mm |
| Color | Black |
| Input Impedance | >1 GOhm |
| Safety Class | II |
| Bluetooth | 5 |
| Certification | CE |
CREATE MIND-CONTROLLED VR-GAMES
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 with hybrid EEG electrodes and the Unicorn Unity Bandpower Interface is the perfect combination for creating immersive Android-based VR games, such as those on Meta Quest. By integrating real-time brainwave inputs into Unity, it enables intuitive, mind-controlled interactions, enhancing user engagement. This powerful combination provides valuable insights into cognitive load and emotional responses, allowing developers to optimize game design for an unparalleled VR experience.
EEG MEASUREMENTS IN HUMANS
Using the g.tec Suite 2024 with the Unicorn BCI Core-8 enables fast, flexible EEG experiment creation with real-time data transmission to g.HIsys Basic or Professional for visualization, storage, and processing. Its rapid prototyping environment and extensive Simulink models support diverse experiments, including BCI, EEG, EMG, and ECG. The device attaches to the Unicorn Cap with a magnetic base, allowing precise electrode placement and easy cleaning. Compatible with g.SAHARA Hybrid electrodes for dry and wet recording, it provides superior flexibility and ease of use, making it ideal for custom EEG research.
ADVANCING EQUINE RESEARCH
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is essential for equine EEG studies, monitoring horse cognition, stress, emotional regulation, learning, pain perception, sleep, and responses to human interaction. Paired with the g.tec Suite 2024, the best software for customizing and conducting equine research, it provides insights for optimizing training, improving welfare, and effective desensitization, especially in high-stimulus environments. Additionally, it enables precise EEG monitoring during surgery, enhancing overall equine care and performance.
EEG MEASUREMENTS FOR HORSE STUDIES
Unicorn Gold Cup Electrodes, used with adhesive paste, ensure secure placement and high-quality data collection in animal fur. Paired with the Unicorn BCI Core-8 device, they are essential for equine EEG studies, enabling the monitoring of brain activity related to cognition, stress, emotional regulation, learning, and pain perception. This technology enhances horse welfare and performance by optimizing training techniques, supporting desensitization in high-stimulus environments, and monitoring brain activity during surgery.
EEG MEASUREMENTS IN DOGS
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is ideal for canine cognition research, offering a non-invasive way to capture real-time brain activity and understand how dogs process information and respond to stimuli. When combined with the g.tec Suite 2024, the leading software for customizing and conducting animal cognition studies, it provides accurate EEG data for developing training methods that align with dogs’ cognitive strengths, enhancing their roles in therapy and service work. This combination bridges science and practical application, fostering more effective human-dog partnerships.
EEG RECORDINGS IN CATS
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 enables researchers to explore how cats perceive their environment, process information, and react to various stimuli. Paired with the powerful g.tec Suite 2024—renowned for its flexibility in designing and running animal cognition experiments—this setup delivers precise EEG data. Researchers can also use Python to build custom experiments, allowing control over stimuli presentation, data analysis, and experimental workflows.
THE NEW SNAP-IN TECHNOLOGY
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is a high-precision data acquisition unit that captures data from 8 EEG channels at 24-bit resolution and transmits it via Bluetooth 5 for seamless connectivity. The Unicorn BCI Core Base connects the Unicorn BCI Core-8 amplifier to the base station and electrodes, ensuring stable signal transmission. It also functions as the power control unit, allowing the device to be turned on and off effortlessly.
UNICORN BCI CORE RECORDER
The g.tec Suite 2024 is a powerful software environment for data acquisition and real-time processing experiments, seamlessly integrating with Unicorn BCI Core devices. It includes the Unicorn BCI Core Recorder, which allows users to acquire, visualize, and record EEG data with pre-defined Notch and Bandpass filters. Recorded data can be saved in CSV or BDF files, and streamed to external applications via LSL or UDP for flexible integration with other systems.
g.HISYS PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE
Data from the Unicorn BCI Core-8 is transmitted in real-time to g.HIsys Basic or g.HIsys Professional, enabling data visualization, storage, and real-time processing. EEG data recorded with the Unicorn BCI Core Recorder can also be streamed via LSL directly into g.HIsys Professional, where the OSCAR LIVE artifact removal add-on can be activated during live measurements.
This rapid prototyping environment allows you to set up experiments quickly and includes hundreds of blocks and Simulink models for configuring experiments involving evoked potentials, BCI, EEG, EMG, ECG, and more.
UNITY BANDPOWER INTERFACE
Unity Bandpower Interface is a seamless Unity plugin designed for developers working with Unicorn BCI Core devices. It enables real-time bandpower calculation, allowing effortless integration of bandpower-based brain-computer interface (BCI) games and applications. With an intuitive setup and optimized performance, this interface empowers developers to create immersive, brain-driven experiences with ease.
Developers can easily deploy their neurofeedback apps or games across multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Android-based HMDs such as Meta Quest.
g.PYPE SDK FOR PYTHON
g.Pype is a Python Software Development Kit (SDK) tailored for creating Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications with the Unicorn BCI Core-8. Ideal for neuroscience research, it features a node-based interface that streamlines real-time pipelines for acquisition, signal processing, and visualization. Users can integrate Python code for EEG signal processing. Comprehensive documentation and prebuilt example blocks and pipelines ensure a smooth start for beginners and experts alike. g.Pype is compatible with Windows and macOS, installable via Python’s package manager (pip), and free for personal use.
g.PYPE RUNTIME FOR PYTHON
g.Pype Runtime is a self-contained solution for the commercial deployment of Unicorn BCI Core-8 applications created with g.Pype SDK. This standalone processing backend runs custom pipelines in the background and delivers real-time output to the frontend application. With no need for pre-installed third-party libraries on the target system, g.Pype Runtime provides a highly efficient deployment process.
HYBRID EEG ELECTRODES
The Unicorn Hybrid EEG Electrodes are made of a conductive material that allows you to record dry or with gel. Dry recordings are fast to setup. For better performance, conductive gel can be applied. Uncorn Hybrid EEG Electrodes provide a high flexibility and a practical solution for various EEG applications and contribute to the advancement of EEG technology.
The Hybrid EEG Electrodes are inserted into cap to hold them in to position over certain brain areas. We have caps for humans, horses and dogs in different sizes.
HYBRID EEG BASE STATION
The base station for Sahara hybrid EEG electrodes is attached with a magnetic holder to the cap. The hybrid electrodes are inserted into certain locations of the cap.
GOLD CUP BASE STATION
The Unicorn base station for gold cup electrodes is available with 4 or 8 channels, plus ground and reference. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 can be attached via the magnet to both of them. Therefore, you can just choose how many electrodes you wish to use for a certain application.
GOLD CUP EEG ELECTRODES
The Unicorn Gold Cup Electrodes are ideal for sleep recordings or for placing electrodes flexibly in the fur of animals. These lightweight electrodes help reduce artifacts, ensuring higher quality data. The electrodes are used with a sticky electrode paste which holds them into position.
POWERFUL LI-ION BATTERY AND ENHANCED SIGNAL QUALITY
Achieve optimal digitization with a 24-bit ADC resolution and a high oversampling rate to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. A lightweight high-power Li-Ion battery with optimal performance, offering 6 hours of recording time, and conveniently charged via USB connection.
EMC TESTED COMPONENTS
Electromagnetic interference can produce distortions in the EEG data and can make huge parts of the recordings unusable. But even more importantly, electronic devices can produce interference to other products and this is completely unacceptable because it can endanger people. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 and all components are therefore EMC tested and follow the international normatives.
ECO-FRIENDLY DEVICE
The Unicorn BCI Core 8 is built with eco-friendly principles, complying with the RoHS Directive. The RoHS Directive, designed to safeguard human health and the environment, addresses the responsible handling of electronic and electrical waste. Furthermore, g.tec’s offices are powered exclusively by 100% renewable energy sources.
PYTHON FOR NEUROSCIENCE
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MEASURING EEG FROM AN ALPACA WHILE WALKING
Recording EEG from Alpaca Merlin. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is mounted on its halter, connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes fixed directly in the fur. The EEG data is recorded in the BCI Core Recorder and streamed via LSL to g.HIsys, where OSCAR LIVE corrected the EEG data in real time during the alpaca’s movements.
MEASURING EEG FROM AN ALPACA WHILE EATING
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is mounted on its halter and connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes positioned on the head. These electrodes are so small that they slip easily through the alpaca’s fur, allowing direct contact with the skin for clean, reliable EEG signals.
MEASURING EEG FROM AN ALPACA WHILE CLOSING THE EYES
The Unicorn BCI Core-8 is attached to the halter with 4 gold cup electrodes placed on the head. During the recording, we gently closed Merlin’s eye to produce a clear alpha wave, which was cleaned in real time by OSCAR LIVE while the data streamed from the BCI Core Recorder via LSL to g.HIsys.
MEASURING EEG FROM A COW WHILE WALKING
We recorded EEG from this cow using the Unicorn BCI Core-8. The device was attached to its halter and connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes placed on the head. This setup allowed us to measure EEG from the cow while it was walking.
MEASURING EEG FROM A COW WHILE EATING
While the cow was eating, EEG was captured with the Unicorn BCI Core-8. The amplifier was secured on the halter and linked to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes positioned on the head. Their small size allowed them to pass through the fur and maintain solid contact. The signals were first recorded in the BCI Core Recorder and then streamed via LSL into g.HIsys, where OSCAR LIVE removed movement artifacts in real time.
MEASURING EEG FROM A COW WHILE CLOSING THE EYES
EEG was recorded from this cow while it closed its eyes to produce alpha waves. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 was secured to the halter and connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes placed on the head. Their small size allowed them to slip through the fur, ensuring good contact for clean signal acquisition.
MEASURING EEG FROM A GOAT WHILE JUMPING
EEG was recorded from goat Hugo while he was jumping. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 was fastened to his neck and linked to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes placed on the head. Despite the extreme movement, OSCAR LIVE corrected the EEG signals instantly, delivering high-quality EEG in real time.
MEASURING EEG FROM A GOAT WHILE WALKING
We recorded EEG from goat Hugo while he was walking. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 was attached to his neck and connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes positioned on the head. The small electrodes provided stable skin contact, allowing reliable EEG acquisition during movement.
MEASURING EEG FROM A PIG WHILE WALKING
EEG was recorded from pig Lotti while she was walking. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 was secured on her back and linked to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes placed on the head. Their small size allowed them to pass through the fur and ensure stable contact, making it possible to capture clean brain signals even during movement.
MEASURING EEG FROM A PIG WHILE SITTING DOWN
EEG was collected from pig Lotti as she was sitting calmly. The Unicorn BCI Core-8 rested on her back and was connected to a base station with 4 gold cup electrodes positioned on the head. The data was streamed from the BCI Core Recorder via LSL into g.HIsys, where OSCAR LIVE cleaned the signals in real time.
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