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Neuroscience 2023
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NIMH has funded the EEGLAB and Neuroscience Gateway teams to build an EEG portal to the OpenNeuro data archive and tool resource.
UCSD scientists Scott Makeig and Arnaud Delorme at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN) of the Institute for Neural Computation (INC), together with co-PIs Amitava Majumdar from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), UCSD, and Russ Poldrack of Stanford University, have received a five-year , nearly $5M grant...
Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves
Even though electroencephalography (EEG) has been used for almost 100 years, this safe and painless test of brain activity remains an efficient method for recording aspects of rapid brain activity patterns supporting our thoughts and actions. Leveraging the power of the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)...
What Learning Looks Like: Creating A Well-Tuned Orchestra In Your Head
What does the brain look like when you’re playing music? According to students at Kellogg Elementary School in Chula Vista, it’s definitely pink and, if you could shrink yourself down and step inside, a relaxing place to be. More...
New SCCN invention could revolutionize testing for glaucoma!
In this interview from AGS 2017, Dr. Felipe A. Medeiros discusses an exciting new technology for visual field (VF) testing called a portable brain-computer interface, which combines virtual reality (VR) goggles with electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors. More...
New UC MERCI initiative named a UC president's Research Catalyst Award winner
Scott Makeig, research scientist and director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Institute for Neural Computation of UC San Diego, has brought together a research group from four UC campuses who have won a $300,000 President’s Research Catalyst Award, one of five such awards across the UC system announced by...
Notion in Motion: Wireless Sensors Monitor Brain Waves on the Fly
Courtesy of Neurosky, Inc. "TIP OF THE ICEBERG": NeuroSky, Inc.'s brain-computer interface shown here just scratches the surface of what is possible thanks to advances in mobile electroencephalographic brain-wave detection technology, says University of California, San Diego's Scott Makeig. Read the article online [ PDF ] Written By...
Mind-reading helmets on the horizon for fighter pilots
SCCN Researcher, Yu-Te Wang Thanks to current advances in electroencephalographic (EEG) brain-wave detection technology, military commanders could soon be monitoring her mental state via helmet sensors, looking for signs she is concentrating on her flying and reacting to the warning light. Read the article online [ PDF ] Written By...
Brain-Monitoring Technology Makes Media Waves
Brain waves, particularly those being studied by UC San Diego researchers, have been making media waves. ABC News, KPBS, UCSD TV and other media outlets have all recently featured new brain-computer interface technology developed by Tzyy-Ping Jung and associates Yu-Te Wang and Yijun Wang of the Institute for Neural Computation. The...
Press Release: New Space Reopening
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience University of California San Diego https://sccn.ucsd.edu The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN) and its parent Institute for Neural Computation (INC) have moved into new quarters in the recently completed extension of the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UCSD campus....
Leading Brain Theory Researchers to Convene July 28-31 at UC San Diego for Annual Meeting of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology
Already a global center for neuroscience research, the University of California, San Diego will host top scholars working on theoretical and quantitative approaches to issues in neurobiology during the 13th annual summer meeting of The Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology on the UCSD campus July 28-31. More...
Press Release: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience Dedicated at UCSD
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) today dedicated the new Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (sccn.ucsd.edu), in recognition of private funding provided by the Swartz Foundation of Old Field, New York. The Swartz Center will integrate theoretical research on brain systems with experimental work on brain imaging...