New journal article in Neural Engineering

The BCMI-MIdAS team have just published a new article in the Journal of Neural Engineering (Impact factor 3.493), titled "Affective Brain-Computer Music Interfacing".

The full article can be viewed online at

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/4/046022

New journal article in Brain and Cognition (Elsevier)

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce a new journal publication in Brain and Cognition, titled "Music-induced emotions can be predicted from a combination of brain activity and acoustic features"

The article can be viewed via science direct 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262615300142

from 3rd November 2015.

Highlights

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A combination of acoustic and neurophysiological features are used to attempt to predict music-induced emotion.

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Significant prediction results are achieved.

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These results are significantly better when a combination of features is used than either feature alone.

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Features selected include alpha and beta band powers and mel-cepstral coefficients.

New journal article in Transactions on Applied Perception, forthcoming conference presentations

The BCMI-MIdAS team are pleased to announce a recent journal article publication in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, with more journal article announcements to follow shortly. Also please see our research publications page for details of a number of exciting conference papers which the team are delivering this month, including venues as far afield as China!

The article can be accessed here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2749466

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Forthcoming conference papers and Gadgetshow appearance

The BCMI-MIdAS team, fresh from hosting the BioMusic Symposium: Interfacing Brain, Music, and Emotions as part of the 10th Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, in Plymouth, Devon, UK on 27 February 2015, have a number of forthcoming conference papers presenting progress from the project, which can be viewed on the research pages now.

Duncan Williams and Joel Eaton also presented a working demo of some of the music generation systems used in the MIdAS project for the first episode of the latest series of The Gadgetshow, which aired on Channel 5 in the UK on March 15th 2015. A clip from the show can be seen here.

Symposium: Interfacing Brain, Music, and Emotions

This symposium is aimed at discussing the state of the art in field of brain-computer music interfacing (BCMI). Scientists from the EPSRC-funded project ‘Brain-Computer Music Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States’ join musicians and invited experts to review methods for analysis and monitoring of bioinformation associated with emotions, and techniques for generating music with a BCMI system aimed at inducing specific emotions on listeners.

The symposium forms part of the programme of the prestigious Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, now in its 10th year:


Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival - 2015 from PACMF-2015 on Vimeo.

The full symposium program is available to view here. Tickets for the symposium are free but must be booked in advance.

Note: The symposium is now fully booked. No further tickets are available.

New journal article - Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables (Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier)

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current contents of Journal of Neuroscience Methods (Elsevier), discussing the development of a new method for identifying EEG correlates of continuous independent variables which outperforms canonical correlation analysis and common spatial patterns. 

The full paper can be viewed online first as of December 26th 2014 here.

Demonstration files accompanying the paper, including code and examples, can be downloaded under a GNU general public license from first author Ian Daly's personal website, here.

New journal article - Investigating music tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control (Brain Computer Interfaces, Taylor & Francis)

The BCMI-MIdAS team present a new paper in the current contents of Brain Computer Interfaces (Taylor & Francis), discussing the use of tempo as a feedback mechanism for closed-loop BCI control.

The full paper can be viewed online first as of November 17th 2014 here.