Newsletter November 2017

On your marks, get set, hack! g.tec is looking back at the BR41N.IO Hackathons  in Austria, Spain, Ireland and Canada where around 600 participants from over 25 countries dipped into brain-computer interface technology and created new useful applications or designed creative headsets. Have a look into the photo galleries: Linz/Austria | Graz/Austria | Banff/Canada | Valencia/Spain | Dublin/Ireland

BR41N.IO at IEEE SMC in Miyazaki/Japan 2018
The hackathon series continues in 2018! More dates will soon be announced"... Read more: Miyazaki 2018
 
Contact us to learn more about BR41N.IO and how we can help to organize a successful Brain-Computer Interface Designers Hackathon!
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An international jury, assembled with experts from Japan, China, Europe and USA who worked with invasive BCI and non-invasive BCI, selected the winners of the BCI Award 2017:
1. Place Winner: “Online adaptive brain-computer interface with attention variations” by Susan Aliakbaryhosseinabadi et.al. from Aalborg University in Denmark
2. Place Winner: “Individual word classification during imagined speech” by Stephanie Martin et.al. from EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland
3. Place Winner: “BCI prosthetic hand to control phantom limb pain” by Takufumi Yanagisawa et.al. from Osaka University in Japan
Congratulations to the winners!
BCI Award 2018 - Submit now!
The next submission deadline is March 1, 2018 and the BCI Award 2018 Ceremony will take place on May 23, 2018 during the 7th BCI Meeting in Asilomar, Pacific Grove, USA. Read more: BCI Award 2018

• New features for g.HIsys: g.CAMERAcapture, Marker, Audio Stimulation, g.THRESHOLDscope and g.EstimFES Simulink Interface v1.16.00. Read more: g.HIsys
• g.BCI-CVEP v1.16.01 toolbox for code-based BCI. Read more: g.BCIsys
• g.CSP recoveriX extension v1.16.00 toolbox for g.REHAbci. Read more: g.BCIsys
• g.Nautilus PRO is now FDA cleared. Read more: g.Nautilus PRO

• The Verge dipped into experiments of Dolby Sound Labs to find out how to hack emotional responses with BCI while watching movies to boost entertainment: The Verge Next Level - Inside Dolby's experiment to watch people while they're watching movies.
• US expert Gerwin Schalk brings know-how of high-gamma mapping to Medical University in Graz, Austria: Gehirnchirurgie - Neues Verfahren an der Med Uni Graz (German)
• Brain Tweakers from EPFL looked back at their unique experiences at the Cybathlon 2016 competition when they won gold in the Brain-Computer Interface Race: How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics’ Brain Race
• Wired Magazine featured Dragan Ilic's "RoboAction A1 K1" where he brain-controlled an industrial robot in order to draw with markers, paint or pencils: Spirograph upgraded: robo-artist soars above canvases trailing geometric patterns in its wake
• Upgrading brains: Homo Digitalis shows future applications of BCI and limits of the human brain at the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria: Homo Digitalis - The Upgraded Brain
• Ars Electronica and Wacker Neuson controlled an excavator with g.tec's BCI system during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria: Dynamic Technology at the Festival: How Brain Power Can Drive an Earthmover

Is your research dedicated to Brain-Computer Interface, clinical applications, neurorehabiliation, neurofeedback or invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation? Submit your abstract and spotlight your research in the upcoming issue Breakthrough BCI Applications in Medicine in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

• Manusript deadline is February 1, 2018.

• Facephenes and rainbows: Causal evidence for functional and anatomical specificity of face and color processing in the human brain. In this publication we show an evidence for functional and anatomical specificity of face and color processing in the human brain. These findings support the theory that the brain at least partly consists of specialized regions that are exclusively and causally engaged in a dedicated mental process. PNAS 2017
• Cardio-audio synchronization drives neural surprise response. University of Lausanne investigated whether interoceptive signals (i.e. from inside the body) can mediate auditory regularity processing. Nature Scientific Reports, 2017.

As a special education service, g.tec has open internships or thesis possibilities in order to learn EEG/BCI skills for your lab. Apply now! Send your internship/thesis applications to Christoph Guger

• ASNR - American Society of Neuro Rehabilitation | November 09-10, 2017 | Baltimore, MD | USA
• Apuväline | November 09-11, 2017 | Tampere | Finland
• MEDICA | November 13-16, 2017 | Düsseldorf | Germany
• 12th International Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography | November 10, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• SfN - Society for Neuroscience | November 11-15, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• g.tec's Brain-Computer Interface workshop at SfN | November 11, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• g.tec's recoveriX workshop at SfN | November 12, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• g.tec's mindBEAGLE workshop at SfN | November 12, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• 4th Brain-Machine Interface Study Group | November 18, 2017 | Tokyo | Japan
• AES - Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society | December 01-05, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA
• 13th International Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography | November 30, 2017 | Washington, DC | USA