— Written by Tom DesRosiers, Elsa Fedrigolli & Luka Caric — As the only fully equipped team, our week started off strong with an advantage compared to the others. On the first few days, our brains were fried and it was difficult to get started. But by the end of the first week we were tripping with […]

The Summer Fellowship of the Brain is back — with a twist! A cohort of seven STEM undergraduates from the US and Serbia will be spending the whole of July in Belgrade, Serbian capital. There, in the Center for Promotion of Science‘s lab makerspace, they’ll conduct their neuroscience research. Best of all, the resulting experiments […]

Cats and dogs aren’t the only pets fond of chasing things that run away from them. Aquarium fish do it too, as shown in our new peer-reviewed paper that came out just last week in the “Animals” journal! Out of 66 fish species observed, nearly 90% showed interest in or set out to chase moving […]

— Written by Fredi Mino — Welcome to the final update on my TinyML Robot Hand project! After collecting sEMG (surface electromyography) data, feeding them into a neural network, and producing a machine learning model that can accurately classify different hand gestures, I can proudly say that my eagle has landed! Deploying and integrating the model proved […]

— Written by Sofia Eisenbeiser — Well, folks, we made it.  The last week, the final frontier, time to sink or swim.  Luckily, I’ve spent the past 10 weeks with the most expert swimmers of all, our BYB fish.  And, boy, have they taught me well.  So, let’s dive in! Alright, where were we?  In the beginning […]

— 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! […]