Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

By Yann Renard | September 27, 2012

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years…

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Emotional self-regulation and Obama

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2008

Great arti­cle in the New York Times on Oba­ma’s emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion abil­i­ties: The Cool Fac­tor: Nev­er Let Them See You Sweat — “We even ele­vate such equi­lib­ri­um to the super­hu­man: calm, as applied to No Dra­ma Oba­ma, often comes linked to the mod­i­fi­er “preter­nat­ur­al.” — “But the calm tem­pera­ment is not so super­hu­man, nor is it…

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A User’s Guide to Lifelong Brain Health: BrainFit for Life

By Dr. Simon Evans | October 14, 2008 |

As the Brain Fit­ness indus­try con­tin­ues to gain momen­tum, and peo­ple explore all the incred­i­ble brain-train­ing tools being devel­oped, we hope that enthu­si­asts don’t take their eye off the impor­tance of the phys­i­cal health of the brain and all the sys­tems it com­mu­ni­cates with. The brain is unique in that it hous­es our cog­ni­tive and…

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