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µPay how it works uPay will have a feature that targets at the person’s brain waves all the time, once it notices a significant change, it checks for ...
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µPay how it works uPay will have a feature that targets at the person’s brain waves all the time, once it notices a significant change, it checks for a few things: 1. Is the person hungry? 2. How is he/she feeling? Unhealthy? 3. Is he/she desperately wanting something? If the brain waves show that the person is hungry, it shows a list of all the food places around your area.

frequencies associated with brain activity Gamma: 26–80 Hz Can result in higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness. In some studies have been linked to ESP, heightened insight, and out of body experiences.

Beta: 12Hz - 38Hz SMR (12Hz - 15Hz) can result in relaxed focus, improved attention. Beta 1 (15Hz - 20Hz) can increase mental abilities, IQ, focus. Beta 2 (20Hz - 38Hz) can result in anxiousness and heightened sense of alertness.

The same thing happens if the person is feeling unhealthy. It’ll suggest things to do, or things to buy, to reach a personal homeostasis. Alpha: 8Hz - 12Hz This frequency can result in a state where the brain is awake, but not processing much. Often used for meditation. Also associated with a feeling of being “in the zone” and dreaming (REM sleep) and states of creative reverie. Theta: 3Hz - 8Hz. Associated with the hypnogogic state right after one wakes up or begins to fall asleep (drowsiness). Can be used for self-hypnosis. Theta 1 (3Hz - 5Hz) suppression can result in improved concentration and attention while reducing hyperactiveness (after the session). Theta 2 (5Hz - 8Hz) can result in a very relaxed sleep. This frequency range is often related to paranormal/spiritual experience. Delta: 0.2 - 3Hz This frequency range usually results in deep sleep.

how this relates with uPay The uPay device will have to require a test with the user, in order to properly make use out of the brain wave readings. The test will look at the quality of the waveforms (the gamma and the beta waves) while the user performs activities with their brain. For example, for the uPay device to know when the user is hungry, the user must be hungry at one point, and notify the device that he/she is hungry. The uPay device will then look at the waveforms and see how they differentiate from the waveforms of when the user is not hungry.

studies of brain activity Neuroeconomics

“The regions of the brain involved in introspection and sensory perception are completely segregated, although well connected,” says Goldberg, “and when the brain needs to divert all its resources to carry out a difficult task, the self-related cortex is inhibited.”

A biological model of decision making in economic environments.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9019&feedId=onlinenews_rss20

How does the embodied brain enable the mind (or groups of minds) to make economic decisions? By combining techniques from cognitive neuroscience and experimental economics we can now watch neural activity in real time, observe how this activity depends on the economic environment, and test hypotheses about how the emergent mind makes economic decisions.

Brain cells linked to choice

http://neuroeconomics.typepad.com/neuroeconomics/2003/09/ neuroeconomics_.html

Self Awareness

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have identified neurons, or brain cells, that seem to play a role in how a person selects different items or goods. Scientists have known that cells in different parts of the brain react to attributes such as color, taste or quantity. Dr Camillo Padaoa-Schioppa and John Assad, an associate professor of neurobiology, found neurons involved in assigning values that help people to make choices.

Everybody has experienced a sense of “losing oneself” in an activity – being totally absorbed in a task, a movie or sex. Now researchers have caught the brain in the act.

“The neurons we have identified encode the value individuals assign to the available items when they make choices based on subjective preferences, a behavior called economic choice,” Padoa-Schioppa said in a statement.

Self-awareness, regarded as a key element of being human, is switched off when the brain needs to concentrate hard on a tricky task, found the neurobiologists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

The scientists, who reported the findings in the journal Nature, located the neurons in an area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) while studying macaque monkeys which had to choose between different flavors and quantities of juices.

The team conducted a series of experiments to pinpoint the brain activity associated with introspection and that linked to sensory function. They found that the brain assumes a robotic functionality when it has to concentrate all its efforts on a difficult, timed task – only becoming “human” again when it has the luxury of time.

They correlated the animals’ choices with the activity of neurons in the OFC with the valued assigned to the different types of juices. Some neurons would be highly active when the monkeys selected three drops of grape juice, for example, or 10 drops of apple juice.

Goldberg found that when the sensory stimulus was shown slowly, and when a personal emotional response was required, the volunteers showed activity in the superfrontal gyrus – the brain region associated with self-awarenessrelated function. But when the card flipping and musical sequences were rapid, there was no activity in the superfrontal gyrus, despite activity in the sensory cortex and related structures.

Other neurons encoded the value of only the orange juice or grape juice. “The monkey’s choice may be based on the activity of these neurons,” said PadoaSchioppa.Earlier research involving the OFC showed that lesions in the area seem to have an association with eating disorders, compulsive gambling and unusual social behavior. The new findings show an association between the activity of the OFC and the mental valuation process underlying choice behavior, according to the scientists.

direction the project will consist of video interviews, having people describe what a phone that connects to your brain would, and video recreations of the results of each interview. The piece will be based off of Sophie Calle’s “The Blind” presentation will consist of 2 full frame videos (one of the interviewer, and one of the recreation). It play each video through on a widescreen dvd and on a website. For example:

design Video The interviews will be shot straight on with the person looking into the camera. Each interview will be shot in 3 angles: Full body, shoulder off to the side, and centered. The corresponding video will take on exactly the look of what is being described in the interview. If there’s silence in the interview, there’s silence in the corresponding image.

La jetee Chris Marker Sans Soleil Focus on how you display the choices and the facts make people give images as answers i want it to show which girl i should date - then ask what they like in women- multiple choices will come up by monday have another interview with a set of images

simplified research Neuroeconomics Neuroeconomics tries to ask why economic decisions are made. A biological model of decision making in economic environments. Neural activity can be watched in real time and observed how this activity depends on the economic environment. Hypotheses can then be tested about how the emergent mind makes economic decisions.

Brain cells linked to choice Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have identified neurons, or brain cells, that seem to play a role in how a person selects different items or goods. Scientists have known that cells in different parts of the brain react to attributes such as color, taste or quantity. The new findings show an association between the activity of the OFC and the mental valuation process underlying choice behavior, according to the scientists.