Project description
What happens in the brain? One commonly-used tool for exploring this is electroencephalography (EEG), where electrodes are placed on the scalp and electrical activity is measured. Of particular importance is our paralysis EEG dataset - recordings of EEG under paralysis , so there is no muscle (EMG) contamination. This project is to explore consciousness, looking at brain changes during paralysis as an anaesthetic is administered. Can we characterise the unconscious brain? How is it different to the stages of sleep? You should have familiarity with matlab, and an interest in neuroscience and/or signal processing.
Supervisors research focus
My research is biomedical signal processing, particular focussed on the brain. Electroencephalography (EEG) allows us to measure brain waves with excellent temporal resolution, so we can see the rapid changes that happen as we think, experience and respond to the world around us. This gives us the chance to study a range of interests, such as disease diagnosis (differences in brains), and connectivity and consciousness (how the brain works as a whole). But there are many sources of noise to make this difficult. We have contributed substantially to artefact reduction algorithms, to enable exploration of high frequencies, or parts of the brain usually hidden by muscle artefact.
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