Re:DARPA grant to work on sensing and stimulating the brain ...
by akomtu on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:02AM
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Do you know if there's a detectable em signal when the subject alternates two images or colors in imagination? Say, black-red or black-white. The two colors would supposedly correspond to different energy levels in the brain and that would generate the em wave. The idea was inspired by an old trick: even without wifi hardware, a processor can emit a em wave by alternating between two clockrates.
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Re:DARPA grant to work on sensing and stimulating the brain ...
by mrtnmcc on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:19AM
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From my experience, visual imagery / imagination is not discernable in EEG, it simply doesn't produce large scale modulations like the motor cortex does.
However with MRI or fMRI I believe it is possible, and have seen papers even reconstructing visualized numbers.
Re:DARPA grant to work on sensing and stimulating the brain ...
by mrtnmcc on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:46PM
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Following up after more thought, we had seen 'tongue motor imagery' (imagination of moving tongue) as clearly discernible in EEG. The motor cortex also has eye muscle mappings nearby. http://mrtnmcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/motor_imagery....
So it is conceivable that motor control of the eye or imagination of it could be detected. In the case of imagining dark or light perhaps this could affect pupil/iris dilation muscles.
Re:DARPA grant to work on sensing and stimulating the brain ...
by akomtu on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:56PM
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What range of em spectrum is analysed and what's the sensitivity? I suspect that motor commands produce a blunt low frequency signal, while emotions and thoughts produce something barely discernible.