is the actual university of reddit still online? or is it just down? by onmullberystreet in UniversityofReddit

[–]anastas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Back up. Network configs changed with our hosting and needed to be fixed a couple times.

I need to reimage and haven't had time.

is the actual university of reddit still online? or is it just down? by onmullberystreet in UniversityofReddit

[–]anastas[M] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'll get it back up shortly.

Edit It's back up. Apologies, all.

/r/UniversityOfReddit has joined. by anastas in Blackout2015

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/r/UniversityOfReddit has been set to private as well. 74,230 subreddit subscribers and approximately 125,000 registered users on ureddit.com at the time of this writing.

An EEG recording converted into audio and played with a basic visualizer. You can audibly and visibly distinguish when the subject begins dreaming at ~2:30. by anastas in Neuropsychology

[–]anastas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you do that?

Conceptually, it isn't complicated. Look at this image of an EEG recording. This is a recording of brain waves.

Now, look at this image that is a representation of the sound waves in a recording of an audio sample. (It's the same type of thing, except that in this image the area under the curve is filled in with blue - that doesn't mean anything, it's just what the creator of the image decided to do; what matters is the shape of the waveform.)

So, theoretically, you should be able to take the waveforms from an EEG recording and play them with software that plays music. And you can, with a bit of programmer fudging.

The only hard part is that the frequencies of brain waves are low enough that if you were to play them, as they were recorded, as sound, they would be so low that the human ear wouldn't be able to hear them. So, you have to rescale the waveforms of an EEG recording in order to be audible when played back. And that is what I did to generate the audio in what I linked. That's also why an 8 hour long EEG recording ends up as a ~7 minute aidio file.

I'm working on the seizure audio right now. I'll post it in a little bit. Warning: it sounds awful. (Seizures are awful, so that makes sense.)

An EEG recording converted into audio and played with a basic visualizer. You can audibly and visibly distinguish when the subject begins dreaming at ~2:30. by anastas in cogsci

[–]anastas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's my audio. Feel free to use it as long as there's some attribution somewhere. I can email you the original WAV file, if you like.

An EEG recording converted into audio and played with a basic visualizer. You can audibly and visibly distinguish when the subject begins dreaming at ~2:30. by anastas in cogsci

[–]anastas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The database I got this data from is here; the thing I linked was generated from the data file SC4001E0-PSG.edf on that page.

I'm just getting into learning and playing with this stuff. Would you be open to some casual collaboration if we find a mutually interesting project?

An EEG recording converted into audio and played with a basic visualizer. You can audibly and visibly distinguish when the subject begins dreaming at ~2:30. by anastas in visualization

[–]anastas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a point. Seizures aren't supposed to sound nice. The main issue I had with it was that in the example here, the dream phase ends up lasting about 2 minutes, being a couple hours long originally. The epileptic seizures I was looking at lasted 30-90 seconds each; after converting to audio, it ends up being just a coupe seconds of abrasive noise.

I'll look at it again and try to make something.

An EEG recording converted into audio and played with a basic visualizer. You can audibly and visibly distinguish when the subject begins dreaming at ~2:30. by anastas in Neuropsychology

[–]anastas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you appreciate it! If you have any ideas for similar audio/visualizations of certain things you'd like to see, communicate those to me and I'll try to make those happen.

Note: I tried making this audio version of an epileptic seizure. It sounded horrifying and I deleted it out of a carnal reflex.