ATR – DNi
BrainLiner v1.06
We are happy to announce that we released v.1.06 of BrainLiner.jp, our lab’s web portal for sharing neurophysiological data, with an emphasis on facilitating brain-machine interface (BMI) research. This release was in development for several months and includes the following key updates:
- “Experiments” are now called “Projects”
- References related to your experiment, such as published journal articles, can now be added
- An area to enter contact information that will be made public has been added
- Channels inside Neuroshare data files can now be edited to include meta-information, such as whether they are data channels or stimulus labels
- For data files that have less than 200 channels, we compute correlation matrices and principle-component variance graphs and display these on a new “View Statistics” page, associated with each relevant data file
- By default up to 20 channels are displayed in the Flash-based data previewer
ATR Open House 2011
This year, the ATR Open House will be on November 11 and 12. More details will be posted later, but here is a rough schedule:
Nov. 11 (Fri)
1st day of the Open House 10:00-17:00
Nov. 12 (Sat)
2nd day of the Open House 10:00-15:00
ATR 25th Anniversary Celebration 13:00-19:00
2010 ATR Open House
Today and tomorrow ATR will have its annual open house.
Schedule:
- 11/5 (Friday) 10：00 〜 17：00
- 11/6 (Saturday) 10：00 〜 16：00
Location: ATR
Featured Projects:
- Moving a robotic hand by decoding neural activity
- Visual image reconstruction from brain data
- Decoding using ECOG brain implants
The official ATR website for this year’s open house is HERE.
Young Investigator Award
Takafumi Yanigasawa, a member at our lab from Osaka University, won the Young Investigator Award at ICCN 2010 in Kobe.
“The Dream Recorder” – An Interview with Yukiyasu Kamitani
The head of our lab, Dr. Kamitani, has an interview in the latest issue of The New Tough – 「”The Dream Recorder,” The New Tough <http://thenewtough.com/> Issue 5, “Science”, Fall 2010」. Be careful, though, as a creative magazine, it may not be safe for work.
The Science of ‘Inception’
Forbes recently posted an article covering some of our recent research on brain activity in human dreams. You can read the article HERE.
Neuroimage Acceptance
Our paper, “Simultaneous recording of ECoG and intracortical neuronal activity using a flexible multichannel electrode-mesh in visual cortex,” was recently accepted to Neuroimage.
Brain Decoder Toolbox
We released our Brain Decoder Toolbox (BDTB), which is a set of Matlab functions to decode brain activity. We use it for our own research and we are making it publicly available in the hopes that other people may find it interesting.
Please look at our download page for the Brain Decoder Toolbox.
NIPS 2009 Paper
Our paper, Fujiwara Y., Miyawaki Y. and Kamitani Y. Estimating image bases for visual image reconstruction from human brain activity. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference (2009), was recently made available online, so please feel free to click on the link and go download it! Dr. Fujiwara is at the NIPS conference right now presenting our work, so if you are attending the conference, feel free to introduce yourself to him.
“Neural art appraisal of painter: Dali or Picasso?” News Coverage
There has been some news coverage about our recent publication, Yamamura H., Sawahata Y., Yamamoto M., and Kamitani Y. (2009). “Neural art appraisal of painter: Dali or Picasso?” Neuroreport 20, 1630-1633:
