by Stefanie | Sep 7, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness, Current Projects
Concussions are the most commonly experienced form of traumatic brain injury. Currently, there is no stand-alone tool capable of diagnosing concussion with sufficient accuracy. Clinicians rely on a battery of assessments that are largely subjective, are prone to...
by Stefanie | Aug 31, 2021 | Biomusic, Current Projects
Photocredit: Joannie Lafrenière Over the past few decades, there has been an exponential increase in the number of individuals who live with minimal communicative ability. While the reasons for this condition vary dramatically between individuals, many share the...
by Stefanie | Aug 4, 2021 | Biomusic - Past, Past Projects
Signals of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) can be used to discriminate between discrete categories of emotions. To date, the most successful emotion classification algorithms have been user-dependent (e.g. trained and tested on data from the same user). While...
by Stefanie | Aug 4, 2021 | Biomusic - Past, Past Projects
The BIAPT lab saw potential for using biomusic in everyday situations with individuals on the neurological spectrum, such as those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Before interfacing biomusic technology with individuals with autism, we first determined the...
by Stefanie | Aug 4, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness - Past, Past Projects
While the BIAPT lab typically uses a 128-channel electroencephalographic (EEG) system, we aim to eventually develop translational systems that can be used in clinical settings for the assessment of consciousness. To this end, we compared the data quality of four...
