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The Holy Grail of (Cognitive) Neuroscience

posted Oct 21, 2011, 11:04 AM by Jeremy Skipper   [ updated Oct 24, 2011, 12:32 PM ]
The bulk of the equipment for understanding the human mind and brain breaks down as follows:  fMRI has fine spatial resolution.  EEG has exceptional temporal resolution.  To truly understand the mind/brain, however, we need both in the same piece of equipment.  We believe that we are starting to achieve this goal with source localization of high density electroencephalography (4D-dEEG).  We present, for the first time in history, a picture of the human brain watching television in real space and time (i.e., the holy grail is 4D-dEEG).  This initial attempt is the average brain response of 27 people with a threshold applied so that you can see only the top 50% of the electrical activity pouring out of the skull. Thank you NIH and NSF