BASHIBA EMOTUNER
Emotuner is a system that allows information regarding a user's emotional state and emotional profile to influence his or her interaction with electronic systems. When applied to human interactions with the environment, with information systems, and with other people the emotuner enables the electronics systems to better anticipate and understand the real desires and intentions of the user.
UNCONSCIOUS DETERMINANTS OF FREE DECISIONS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN
April 2008: There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.
HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION
April 2006: A device called "Brain Port," was pioneered more than 30 years ago by Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist. Bach-y-Rita began routing images from a camera through electrodes taped to people's backs and later discovered the tongue was a superior transmitter.
Dr. Anil Raj, lead scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, just presented a narrow strip of red plastic connects the Brain Port to the tongue where 144 microelectrodes transmit information through nerve fibers to the brain. Instead of holding and looking at compasses and bluky-hand-held sonar devices, the divers can processes the information through their tongues.
In testing, blind people found doorways, noticed people walking in front of them and caught balls. A version of the device, expected to be commercially marketed soon, has restored balance to those whose vestibular systems in the inner ear were destroyed by antibiotics.
RIGHT BRAIN vs LEFT BRAIN TEST
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Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. |
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe |
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking |
| Source: Perthnow |
WEB LINKS
Biofeedback Device with Audio Capabilities:
Zen in a Stone
Affective Computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions:
Affective Computing