Activity trackers have come a long way. Today, Boston-based company Neurable announced the launch of its smart headphones, dubbed the MW75 Neuro, which use electroencephalography, or EEG, and artificial intelligence to track the wearer’s focus levels by reading their brain waves. Noninvasive BCIs like Neurable’s collect brain data though the skin—usually with EEG—without requiring any kind of surgery. EEG is …
Editor’s Note: This CNN series is, or was, CNN — Mind-reading headphones sound like an invention straight out of a science-fiction film, and a far-fetched one at that. But Neurable’s goal is to create an “everyday brain-computer interface” that can help people struggling with burnout, fatigue and productivity, says Ramses Alcaide, the company’s CEO and co-founder. “The resolution is a …
One afternoon in May 2020, Jerry Tang, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, sat staring at a cryptic string of words scrawled across his computer screen: “I am not finished yet to start my career at twenty without having gotten my license I never have to pull out and run back to my …
For Parkinson's disease patients, a few minutes of data collected from a single electrode put on top of the head may be sufficient to anticipate cognitive issues, including dementia. How brain waves can predict cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Study The results of a recent University of Iowa study may aid in the improvement of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease …
A turning point for Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at New York’s Columbia University, came when his lab discovered it could activate a few neurons in a mouse’s visual cortex and make it hallucinate. Following his team’s discovery, he launched the NeuroRights Initiative, which advocates five “neuro-rights” to protect how a person’s brain data is accessed and used, including a right …
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