- A Nonprofit, Research Repository Online
- Founded by Paras Kaul in 1996
- Calls Attention to Brain Matters
- Introduces Brain Wave Gaming
- Discusses Neurological Learning and Healing
- Explains Neurological Multimedia (Neural Audio Imaging)
- Promotes the Interactive Brain Wave Visual Analyzer System (IBVA4)
- Archives Performances Featuring Brain Wave Music and Digital Animation
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Gallery of Art, Mississippi State University, George Mason University's, Center for the Arts, George Mason University's Harris Theater, Los Angeles Convention Center, Dana Centre Museum of Science (UK), Provincial Library (Washington, DC)
Neural Audio Imaging
A project was conducted in the Electronic Visualization Program at Mississippi State
University in 1997 where Kaul taught a graduate course, Visual Music With a Java Connect.
A goal of the course was to produce a brain wave interactive multimedia
CD of student projects created with the use of a neurological learning tool.
Neural Audio Imaging refers to a process, whereby brain wave values, input to the computer via the IBVA4 interface, are converted to frequency and amplitude values using fast Fourier transforms. These values are then analyzed using EEG. The values are used for animation, and the data can also be converted to midi values which are input to sound modules to make brain wave music.
Interactive
Brain Wave Visual Analyzer
Preview Neural Audio Imaging Tracks
Kaul's Neural Audio Imaging server project, featuring
brain wave multimedia by graduate students from Mississippi State University,
has been exhibited at Internet2 conferences in Ann Arbor and Seattle.
Additionally, Kaul has presented research in the form of exhibits in leading
edge exhibitions at the annual Special
Interest Group for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)
conferences at the Los Angeles, Orlando, and Boston Convention Centers in 1994,
'95, '97, and 2006. 
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Concept
Neurological learning tools (NLT), using a brain wave interface
to the computer, facilitate processes modeled after the brain's intuitive
function. New methodologies for learning with an NLT develop the
human potential for nonverbal communication, remote viewing, and self-healing,
which potential has barely been addressed in academic environments.
Neurological learning tools develop one's ability to brain wave switch from one mental state to another. Brain wave states, are defined by the frequency bandwidths of gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta, based on frequency values delineated by electroencephalographic analysis ( EEG) of brain wave signals. Continued practice with an NLT allows one to achieve increased performance levels by willfully altering brain wave activity to predominantly alpha or lower frequency brain waves.
Relaxed and focused mental activity is associated with alpha neural signaling. As anxious beta neural activity decreases, focused mental activity increases. Learning occurs in an effortless manner, as learning acquired by monitoring the neurological control of multimedia elements. While experiencing alpha, one realizes an increased ability to problem solve; thus, one quickly learns the advantages of existing in a clear perceptual state of mind.
Using the fourth version of the Interactive Brain Wave Visual Analyzer (IBVA4), brain waves animate movies, images, and digital objects in 3-D environments. Additionally brain waves control audio gain and filtering of audio tracks designed in music applications that have the Audio Unit built into their software. Brain waves also control midi signaling input to the Max audio application.
Brain wave switching is accompanied by changes in the flow of nonverbal mental activity.
These shifts in neural frequencies demonstrate the brain's power to alter neural signaling from predominantly beta signaling, to alpha, theta, and delta dominance. In the future, we will need to draw upon low frequency dominance to problem solve for new issues, which the human species has not confronted in the past.
Site contact: Paras
Kaul
phone: 703-993-8819
Site update: April
2008