BME lab contributed to the 2022 TriCity Brain Week 24 March 2022 – Posted in: news – Tags: Brain, Brain awareness week, brain-computer interface, Gdansk, Gdansk University of Technology, kids, Memory Enhancement, Neuroscience, outreaching, Science

Last Friday, we ran a successful workshop about the power of concentration at the TriCity Brain Week event held at the University of Gdansk. Ola and Amanda from our BME lab group prepared fantastic presentations for a wide spectrum of audience, ranging from preschoolers all the way up to adults. A brief introduction into the psychology and neurobiology of vigilance, attention and concentration was followed by demonstration of our toy brain-computer interface (BCI). It worked particularly well with the preschool/primary school group, in which some of the participants really mastered moving a ball in space solely by focusing and inducing specific brain waves. Some of the teachers, who joined their students, were so impressed with the powerful demonstration of keeping attention that they insisted on a follow-up visit in their school and on advocating purchase of the BCI technology to train both students and the staff!

We had a fruitful time of communicating and promoting neuroscience to the public. Everyone is welcome so see you next year on the brain week…