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Creative thinking: a brain computer interface of art

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On July 1st 2016 I will present the paper CREATIVE THINKING: A BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE OF ART of art at the International Conference on Live Interfaces at Sussex University (Brighton, UK).

The paper was written by Raffaella Folgieri, Ludovico Dei Cas, Francesco Soave and Claudio Lucchiari and it’s a scientific investigation on BCI (Brain Computer Interfaces) used as an instrument to create and express artistic contents. Neuro and congnitive sciences allow us today to explore the cognitive processe behind our “creativity”, opening the doors to new way of expression and exploring the multiple ways of how our brain understands and creates art.
The talk will be at 1:30 PM, in the Fulton B section.

Here the full programme of the event.

Little Chicken

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Little chicken is a particle video made in Processing.
It aims to give a representation of a human being through digital media.

A human is hereby intended as the sum of multiple parts (particles) moving in a non-predictive way but still limited by edges.
During the life of the video (as well as the life of a human being) there are many pseudo-random external factors that will take place, influencing the movement of particles.
Some of these factors are stronger and will last longer than others. According to their “intensity”, they will attract more or less particles as different events in our life require more or less our involvement.

However, over time, the particles change colour as people change through their lives, and changing all together represents their belonging to the specific individual.

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Semantic priming as a form of cognitive empowerment

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This dissertation was the result of the course Virtual Reality/Informatic representation of knowledge (Università degli Studi di Milano), and was written by Elisa Baccolo, Beatrice Bellomo and Francesco Soave, 2014.

Priming is an automatic cognitive mechanism according to which the exposition to a certain kind of stimulus can modify the response to a subsequent stimulus (Schachter, Dobbins, & Schnyer, 2004). Even if literature has widely dealt with this phenomenon, still the experiments that moves further than just recording response times (i.e. MRI, EEG) are few. The main goal of our project is to evaluate if semantic priming, a kind of priming where prime and target are semantically-related, could be considered as a form of cognitive empowerment, as well as a useful method to improve the performances of subjects influenced by this stimulation. In particular, we expect that the subjects which received semantic priming show a lower activation of Beta (associated with high brain activity) and Gamma (associated with memory) waves, than the subjects who did not receive the priming. In order to do this, different people took part in a test, wearing a Neurosky Mindwave, a human-machine interface that allows to record EEG signals and the corresponding timing (fundamental for the priming itself). The results obtained in the experiment corroborate our thesis both from a behavioural and a cognitive point of view.

Here you can read the full research.

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