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I wonder what it means that the brain wave synchronization decreased over the session. Did some signal cause them to start out synchronized and then they gradua

by im3w1l 4y ago

I wonder what it means that the brain wave synchronization decreased over the session. Did some signal cause them to start out synchronized and then they gradually drifted apart spontaneously? Also kind of wonder if this will replicate.

im3w1l 4y ago
So this caused caused me to associate in interesting manners, one thing lead to another, and suddenly I was reading a really wacky paper, which does have some real science, but where it's hard to tell where science ends and fantasy begins [1]. Anyway one formulation stuck with me and came back after having some nice sleep. How lightning storms can cause the schuman resonance to ring like a bell. What I realized was that lightning is phenomenon in time-domain. And then I realized that action potentials are also a time-domain phenomenon. And what are brainwaves but the ringing of action potentials (this question is less rhetorical than it first sounds, I don't know, maybe there is actually something more to it)? Lightning storms... action potential storm. Maybe it's simply that the start of the game or something similar, that causes a strong time-domain response, basically a dirac spike, with a little resonant ringing. [1]. https://www.bobbeck.com/pdfs/beck-article-elf-waves-and-eeg-entrainment.pdf https://www.bobbeck.com/pdfs/beck-article-elf-waves-and-eeg-...
comfypotato 4y ago
I think a muscle tiring out is a halfway decent metaphor for this. It would literally being ion concentrations, neurotransmitter vesicles, etc. that need to “recharge”. I’ve got some undergrad neuroscience research under my belt, but no real qualifications for the statements. Notice the synchronization is stronger for the second game. That would be short term synaptic neuroplasticity (and where the muscle metaphor ends).

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I wonder what it means that the brain wave synchronization decreased over the session. Did some signal cause them to start out synchronized and then they gradua

by im3w1l 4y ago

im3w1l 4y ago
So this caused caused me to associate in interesting manners, one thing lead to another, and suddenly I was reading a really wacky paper, which does have some real science, but where it's hard to tell where science ends and fantasy begins [1]. Anyway one formulation stuck with me and came back after having some nice sleep. How lightning storms can cause the schuman resonance to ring like a bell. What I realized was that lightning is phenomenon in time-domain. And then I realized that action potentials are also a time-domain phenomenon. And what are brainwaves but the ringing of action potentials (this question is less rhetorical than it first sounds, I don't know, maybe there is actually something more to it)? Lightning storms... action potential storm. Maybe it's simply that the start of the game or something similar, that causes a strong time-domain response, basically a dirac spike, with a little resonant ringing. [1]. https://www.bobbeck.com/pdfs/beck-article-elf-waves-and-eeg-entrainment.pdf https://www.bobbeck.com/pdfs/beck-article-elf-waves-and-eeg-...
comfypotato 4y ago
I think a muscle tiring out is a halfway decent metaphor for this. It would literally being ion concentrations, neurotransmitter vesicles, etc. that need to “recharge”. I’ve got some undergrad neuroscience research under my belt, but no real qualifications for the statements. Notice the synchronization is stronger for the second game. That would be short term synaptic neuroplasticity (and where the muscle metaphor ends).