“Instead of reading books, watching lectures, seeing live demos, or analyzing fake data, students in this class have real experience with EEG recording and analysis. “I have been transforming my normal third-year lecture class to a hands-on class where students learn about the brain and mind through real reproducible experiments and data analysis,” said Mathewson, who is also a member of UAlberta's Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NHMI). But advances in the field by companies such as InteraXon have made these tools vastly more accessible-and therefore an excellent tool for teaching undergraduate students. Traditional EEG technology has simply been too expensive for large-scale teaching. InteraXon is a Toronto-based company that specializes in wearable brain sensing technology such as the Muse headband, a low-profile, wearable device that measures activity in the wearer’s brain. “When large groups of neurons are active together, they create an electrical signal that is large enough to be measured on the outside of the head.”
“EEG, also known as an electroencephalogram, takes an electrical measure of brain activity,” explained Kyle Mathewson, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience. Fifty EEG headsets, donated by InteraXon, the makers of Muse® the Brain Sensing Headband, are changing the way that undergraduate students learn in the University of Alberta’s Department of Psychology.
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