EEG Audio

Sonification

• Experiments in Sonification of EEG Signals
   http://www.cs.colostate.edu/eeg/tones/ 
   

• Sonification Examples 
  http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~thermann/projects/index.html 
   

• SONIFICATIONS FOR EEG DATA ANALYSIS
  T. Hermann P. Meinicke H. Bekel H. Ritter H Muller1 S. Weiss2
  Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Auditory Display
  Kyoto, Japan, July 2–5, 2002
  http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2002/proceedings/22_Thomas_Hermann_EEG.pdf 
   

Researchers

Papers

• Tempo and Loudness Analysis of a Continuous 28-Hour Performance of Erik Satie’s Composition “Vexations”
  Reinhard Kopiez, Marc Bangert, Werner Goebl and Eckart Altenmüller 
  Journal of New Music Research 2003, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 243–258 
  http://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/satie/Kopiez-Satie(2003)JNMR32_03.pdf  
   

• Discovery of Influence in Music Listening by Analysing EEG
  Takahiro Ogawa, Yasue Mitsukura, Minoru Fukumi and Norio Akamatsu (Graduate school of Engineering, the University of Tokushima)
  http://biomecha.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/CME2005/OS12.html 
   
• Time Series of Awake Background EEG Generated by a Model Reflecting the EEG Report
  S. Nishida, M. Nakamura, A. Ikeda, T. Nagamine, H. Shibasaki
  http://biomecha.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/CME2005/OS12.html 
   

• Directed Coherence Analysis of EEG recorded during music listening
  N.Saiwaki, H.Tsujimoto, S.Nishida and S. Inokuchi
  Proceedings of 18th International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp.483-485, Amsterdam, The Netherland, November,1996.
   

• Non-impaired auditory phase locking in dyslexic adults.
  R. Hari, A. Sääskilahti, P. Helenius, and K. Uutela.
  NeuroReport, 10:2347-2348, 1999. 
   

• Auditory stream segregation in dyslectic adults.
  P. Helenius, K. Uutela, and R. Hari.
  Brain, 122:907-913, 1999.  
   

• Virtual Musical Instruments: Accessing the Sound Synthesis Universe as a Performer.
  AXEL MULDER
  http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~amulder/personal/vmi/BSCM1.pdf  
   

Listening

• Revisiting the role of correlation coefficient to distinguish chaos from noise (2000)
  Bhattacharya J, and Kanjilal PP 
  Europhysical Journal B 13: 399-403.
  http://neuro.caltech.edu/%7Ejoy/epj.pdf  
   

• Decomposition of posterior alpha rhythm (2000)
  Bhattacharya J, Kanjilal PP, and Nizamie, SH 
  IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering 47: 738-747.
  http://neuro.caltech.edu/%7Ejoy/ieee_bme.pdf  
   

• Musicians and the gamma-band – a secret affair?
  Bhattacharya J, and Petsche H (2001)
  Neuroreport 12: 371-374.
  http://neuro.caltech.edu/%7Ejoy/neuroreport.pdf  
   

• Brain tuned to music (2003) 
  Andrade PE, Bhattacharya J 
  Journal of Royal Society of Medicine London 96: 284-287. 
  http://neuro.caltech.edu/%7Ejoy/jrsm_music.pdf 
   

• Sound-induced illusory flash perception: Role of gamma band responses (2002)
  Bhattacharya J, Shams L, Shimojo S 
  NeuroReport 13:1727-1730. 
  http://neuro.caltech.edu/%7Ejoy/nr_2.pdf  
   

Patents

• EEG control
  http://www.catalase.com/patent.htm 
   

• Method and apparatus for translating the EEG into music to induce and control various psychological
  and physiological states and to control a musical instrument 
  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars...f=G&l=50&s1=4883067.WKU.&OS=PN/4883067&RS=PN/4883067 
   

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