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| How to make your own Ganzfeld mask - Hack your brain |
| 2009-04-15 23:04:33 |
I just ran across this do it yourself guide detailing a method for creating your own ganzfeld mask. 'Classic' ganzfeld masks were constructed using ping pong balls. The author of the guide, found on instructables.com, has something else in mind. If you're wondering what the heck a 'ganzfeld mask' is, it's a device that creates the 'ganzfeld effect' when worn. The ganzfeld effect is experienced when your entire field of vision becomes completely featureless. The brain amplifies the senses when no depth or outlines of objects can be seen. This results in very peculiar psychedelic state similar to dreaming. This is one of the easiest (and cheapest!) ways to experience an altered state of consciousness. The author even includes a video. The image abov...
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| Hack Your Brain |
| 2009-02-09 22:51:43 |
I found the below images while reading the Boston Globe. (Boston Globe?!)These are great little examples of how you can trick your senses into perceiving things that you know are not real. The experiences produced by the experiments are something much like hallucinations. Try them out for yourself! The Ganzfeld Procedure Incredible Shrinking Pain The Rubber Hand Illusion ; The Pinocchio Illusion Purkinje Lights...
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| Mattel Jumps Into the Neurofeedback Game with Mind Flex |
| 2009-01-28 17:12:17 |
The Force Trainer wasn't the only new product unveiled at CES 2009 that uses Neurosky's new EEG neurofeedback system. Even the toy mammoth Mattel has decided to test the waters with this new technology. Mind Flex is a game featuring an obstacle course that you must use your mind to navigate a small sphere through. The headset looks slightly different than the one included with the Force Trainer - it has one sensor that rests against your forehead and two more that clip onto your earlobes. Apparently the sensors use only theta-wave activity to control the sphere around the course - most likely triggered only during concentration and focus. The headset is wireless and transmits signals to the game using radio frequencies.The sphere moves around the course using a small fa...
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| The Force Trainer, A New EEG Biofeedback Controlled Toy |
| 2009-01-28 16:56:36 |
The Force Trainer from Uncle Milton Industries will be one of the first mainstream EEG neurofeedback toys on the market. This revolutionary new game monitors brainwave activity and allows you to control a small ball that moves through a 10 inch training tower using focus and concentration. Uncle Milton unveiled their new toy at CES 2009. With a fall 2009 release date, it will one of the first products using NeuroSky's neurofeedback hardware. The headset included with the toy appears to be simple and unobtrusive.Let's hope they do it right so that more products from other manufacturers will follow. We're excited to see EEG neurofeedback being used in a toy. Expect some serious innovaction as more people become aware of EEG and this technology hits mainstream. We'l...
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| New Alpha/Theta Neurofeedback & Creativity Study |
| 2008-12-20 15:07:50 |
A theory of alpha/theta neurofeedback, creative performance
enhancement, long distance functional connectivity and
psychological integration.
Gruzelier J.
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London,
Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK,
j.gruzelier@gold.ac.uk.
Professionally significant enhancement of music and dance
performance and mood has followed training with an
EEG-neurofeedback protocol which increases the ratio of theta to
alpha waves using auditory feedback with eyes closed. While
originally the protocol was designed to induce hypnogogia, a state
historically associated with creativity, the outcome was
psychological integration, while subsequent applications focusing
on ra...
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| Comparing the 3 Neurofeedback Gaming Interfaces |
| 2008-12-17 14:34:58 |
The Epoc from Emotiv Release Date: Summer 2009 Number of Electrodes: 16 Electrode Type: Pure Neural Signals / EEG Movements: Head Rotation through two-axis gyros Estimated Cost: $299 SDK Available? YES The ThinkGear from NeuroSky Release Date: Will be released OEM only from 3rd party software/game developers Number of Electrodes: 1 Electrode Type: Pure Neural Signals / EEG Movements: Estimated Cost: Available only to companies developing games or software. SDK Available? YES The NIA from OCZ Release Date: May 2008 Number of Electrodes: 3 (Front) Electrode Type: Uses Biopotentials from forehead. Mixture of muscle, skin nerve activity (sympathetic and parasympathetic) Movements: Multiple mapped profiles Estimated Cost: $160 SDK Available? NO...
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| Scientists digitally reconstruct images from inside the mind? |
| 2008-12-12 10:03:54 |
I can't verify this because it is in Japanese. Original article here: http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2008121102000053.html (http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2008121102000053.html) Researchers from Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs have created a new brain analysis technology that can recontruct images inside of a person's mind and then display them on a monitor. The researchers want to try to view the contents of dreams in the future. Sounds like either the journalist or the scientist is exaggerating their findings, but I could be wrong. I just have a hard time believing this could be possible. Here's how they are claiming ...
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| Excellent new study on Mind Machines / Brainwave Entrainment |
| 2008-12-05 20:02:18 |
A systematic review and analysis of 20 of the major studies done on Brainwave Entrainment. The effect of photic stimulation (Mind Machines) on cognition, stress anxiety, pain, headaches migraines, mood, and PMS are are all discussed. Below you'll find a link to the entire article and a conclusion extract. One of the authors of the study, Christine Charyton, PhD, is an employee of Transparent Corporation (http://www.transparentcorp.com). Comprehensive Review of the Psychological Effects of Brainwave EntrainmentTina L. Huang, PhD; Christine Charyton, PhD From _Alternative_ Therapies, Sep/Oct 2008, Vol. 14, No. 5 The immediate psychological effects of memory, attention, stress, pain, and headaches/migraines were shown to benefit from even a single session of BWE. Many practitioners an...
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| Two papers on ganzfeld hallucinations |
| 2008-12-04 15:52:41 |
Ganzfeld-induced hallucinatory experience, its phenomenology and cerebral electrophysiology (http://www.cortexjournal.net/article/S0010-9452(08)00143-3/fulltext) Unfortunately I can't post them here in their entirety, but here's the abstracts: Ganzfeld-induced hallucinatory experience, its phenomenology and cerebral electrophysiology AbstractGanzfeld, i.e., exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field, elicits in most observers pseudo-hallucinatory percepts, and may even induce global functional state changes (‘altered states of consciousness’). The present paper gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenology of subjective experience in the ganzfeld and its electrophysiological correlates. Laboratory techniques for visual or multi-modal ganzfeld inductio...
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