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Re:Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time by stinos on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:09AM (#16077286)
FMRIs or much more accurate EEG's

Or neural recordings with electrodes. Better spatial resolution than EEG and fMRI and way better time resolution than fMRI.

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Re:Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time by frereubu on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:32AM (#16077542)
If you mean surface electrodes, then that is EEG: ElectroEncephaloGram. If you mean electrodes inside the brain, then you're talking brain surgery. I'm not sure what point you're making here - could you elucidate?
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Re:Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time by stinos on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:54AM (#16077861)
I did mean electrodes in the brain (or spine) and mentioned that for completeness, to make it clear there's another method besides fMRI and EEG. Which indeed has the obvious disadvantage it involves some surgery, but does the type of signal recorded with it does have advantges over the other methods.
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Re:Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time by SubiculumCode on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:19PM (#16079917)
When available in humans, that data is amazing. It is used frequently in animal models though.
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