— Written by Nour Chahine — Before I start discussing my updates, I have an announcement to make: I solemnly swear that I will solely be working with SSVEPs for the remainder of my project! Over the past few weeks, I worked on feeding different forms of data into the neural network. I mainly applied two approaches: […]

— Written by Ariyana Miri — Welcome back FOMO gang! If you’ve been following along with my FOMO glasses journey, then you know I’m trying to build a pair of glasses that capture a photo every time you blink. In my first post, we discussed the idea behind my project, and the implications the success of the […]

— Written by Sachin Pillai — Hello to everyone out there! This is Sachin here again with updates on your very own portable poker bluff detector. I ended my last blog post mentioning how I developed the capability to collect electrodermal activity during full rounds of poker. This has allowed me to amass a large dataset […]

— Written by Samuel Kuhn — So, the summer is coming to an end, and I have faced off against a behemoth of a challenge. The readiness potential has proved elusive at every turn. I have tried different hardware, software, different electrode locations and experimental locations, different participants with different hair lengths, and yes, I even […]

—Written by Sarah Falkovic— Welcome to my final post on project lie detector! Previously, I have discussed how I have moved from strict skin galvanic response research to P300 signals. Here I am now to update you on this “I saw it” response!  As a quick recap: the P300 signal is an EEG (brain-wave) measurement taken along […]

— Written by Fredi Mino — Hello again! Since the last time we met, I have been working towards producing a machine learning model that can accurately predict the different gestures/finger movements that we are classifying, and (spoiler alert) it seems like we are almost there! If we are to have any chance of success, we must […]

—Written by Ariyana Miri— Welcome back! If you’ve been following along with my FOMO glasses journey, then you know I’m trying to build a pair of glasses that capture a photo every time you blink. In my last post, we discussed the idea behind my project, and the implications the success of the project can have! […]

—Written by Sofia Eisenbeiser— Please give a warm welcome to the newest additions to Backyard Brains: the tiger barbs! Hello, everyone! It’s Sofia, coming at you with an update on the BYB fish. So, we last left off with making the discovery that one of our African cichlid fish likes to chase a laser pointer around his aquarium. Shortly after […]

—Written by Nour Chahine— As you may recall from my introductory blog post, this summer I’m working on building a TinyML device that can guess which card you secretly picked based on your brain’s EEG signal. But it’s a road paved with many SSVEPs (Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials)! These past two weeks have been all about SSVEP […]

—Written by Sachin Pillai— Lo and behold, somehow I’m already five weeks into the BYB fellowship program this fine summer. At this point, the only bluff I’ve certainly encountered is just how fast time can pass! Just kidding. I have in fact made significant progress with my Poker Bot over the past weeks and that includes […]

—Written by Samuel Kuhn— These two photos just about summarize the past 5 weeks of searching for the Readiness Potential. I’ve hit a stone wall trying to replicate it so that it could bring me one step closer to understanding the free will phenomenon! I have been collecting EEG data just about every day trying to […]

–Written by Sarah Falkovic– Welcome to the update on my lie detector project! In my previous blog post, I discussed the modality of electrodermal activity, a.k.a our unconscious sweat response and its ties to stress. However, as a method of measuring lies it leaves much to be desired due to its ability to be swayed by […]