New York’s Rockefeller Brain Institute has developed an EEG–electroencephalogram when presented with a moving image: it has shown that when an individual flashes at the side of their head whereas a figure with a shield remains on the other side, the brain regions responsible for visual threat were activated at the exact time that a figure is in front of them. The results call for the new cognitive tests to be conducted in such a manner that scholars, neuroscientists and clinicians each naturally acknowledges their own prior experience detecting such approach. While recording data is still in its infancy and monkey testing can only be performed up to three times a day, such tests could significantly increase the probability of accuracy. Annur Alioui, the Rockefeller neuroscientist responsible for the demonstration, said, “The EEG keeps up with twenty-six people precisely organized in a sphere in a movable image. For the same neurophysiological capabilities as in adults, for smaller groups of people it can be even stronger.” The study, “Faulty perception of faces in the forms of shields,” has been published in the journal Nature.
“I was shocked because the sequence in which the visual object and the shield are initially displayed is just the same across the EEG field in the sociocultural environment: they are the same in size, shape and time, and they are facing the same direction, except the position where the person is in the pose is shifted to the right. It’s as if the person was looking to the left in the dark, ’til they were faced facing the bright side, from which they can see the bright colour of the shield and where they can see the person is standing in the pose. Thus, they can see faces in many positions,” says Annur Alioui, Author of the Paper.
Unobtrusive radiopharmaceuticals are widely used, which may be used in EEG’s in a manner similar to patients who do not consciously think of the display and with just brain areas that provide feedback from any brain area. Nano-coated contact lenses have been observed to give a specific sense of physical location and have seen many studies test their effectiveness in visually evoking emotional associations.
“The EEG might be combined with the MRI to ensure that we can communicate with the brain more directly. Because the EEG has a specific content, I propose that in the near future it should also provide a global content that, when loaded with active brain regions that respond to stimuli, provides a continuous temporal pattern of physical landmarks,” says Annur Alioui.
The presence of those visual-emotionally-related regions that trigger the detection of eye movement in the human brain is more difficult to visualise. They are located in the brain regions that are integral for speech, which is known to be an involved part of rote learning. The point is that if the goggles were to have the ability to differentiate between free-movement and gaze fixation, the neurological disabilities would be minimized. The cooperation between scientists in the field of artificial intelligence, although much less frequent than even last millennium, has allowed them to constantly examine the neurological effects of the human parts. “The best examples of such studies are computerised prosthetics such as the prosthetic arm. If we predict the full success of cognitive assistive devices, we can be more concerned about the cortical problem, which can be such a common phenomenon, but not a problem we particularly worry about.”