头等躺椅:将思想融入脑波沙发 [幻灯片]

比利时一款神经反馈设计的沙发,其灵感 буквально 来自一位设计师的头脑

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两位欧洲设计师 Dries VerbruggenLucas Maassen 最近对 神经反馈 的想法着迷,在这种反馈中,患者(例如,患有注意力缺陷多动障碍的人)在视频屏幕上观察自己 脑电波,并尝试通过精神努力来改变其震荡。

连接到头部的电极传输神经活动模式,这些模式可以名义上被改变,以产生集中的注意力、平静的心态或其他精神状态。 然而,神经反馈是否是一种有效的治疗方法,仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。

但是,即使它只是一种稍微更动态的颅相学形式,你头部内部的振荡信号对某些人来说也具有不可否认的吸引力。 对于 Verbruggen 和 Maassen 来说,α 波的起伏为他们的设计工作提供了灵感,最终产生了一件家具,即脑波沙发。

幻灯片:脑波沙发:坐下来思考那个想法

Gary Stix, senior editor of mind and brain topics at 大众科学, edits and reports on emerging advances that have propelled brain science to the forefront of the biological sciences. Stix has edited or written cover stories, feature articles and news on diverse topics, ranging from what happens in the brain when a person is immersed in thought to the impact of brain implant technology that alleviates mood disorders such as depression. Before taking over the neuroscience beat, Stix, as 大众科学's special projects editor, was responsible for the magazine's annual single-topic special issues, conceiving of and producing issues on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, climate change and nanotechnology. One special issue he oversaw on the topic of time in all of its manifestations won a National Magazine Award. With his wife Miriam Lacob, Stix is co-author of a technology primer called Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed.

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