BCI Award deadline extension: New submission deadline is April 13, 2013

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The submission deadline for the BCI Award 2013 comes closer - it is March, 30th 2013! Submit your 2 page description now and win the prize!

The International Annual BCI Award, endowed with 3,000 USD, is one of the top accolades in BCI research. The Award was created to recognize outstanding and innovative research in the field of Brain-Computer Interfaces. The Award is open to any brain-computer interface research worldwide and an international jury of top BCI researchers…

Euronews shows new developments from g.tec, especially technology developed within the European research project BrainAble.

Check it ou!

http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/20/a-machine-which-can-read-your-mind/

2012-09_Salzburger_Hand-on_Workshop.pdf…

Send your 2-page description to bci.award2013@gtec.at !!!

The 2013 jury is:



   -Theresa Vaughan (chair of the jury 2013),

   -Douglas Weber,

   -Adam Hebb,

   -Donatella Mattia,

   -Andrzej Cichocki,

   -Adam Wilson,

   -Surjo Soekadar (winner 2012)

According to recent research, the following drugs of abuse studied that may cause effects on synaptic transmission are:

Alcohol  

Alcohol inhibits neurotransmission in two ways. First, it inhibits the excitatory channels on the postsynaptic neuron. Next, it lowers the rate of action potentials from the presynaptic neuron.  

Caffeine  

At synapses where adenosine is the primary neurotransmitter, a high…