Age-related effects in sensory and neural processing

感觉和神经处理中与年龄相关的影响

• 批准号: 470367-2014
• 负责人: Sekuler, Allison
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: McMaster University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=564109
• 关键词: Age; related; effects; sensory; neural

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are a rapidly evolving area of great commercial interest to Canada. Canada's leading company in BCI, InteraXon, has spent years designing and testing a system to allow users to control their computers and mobile devices wirelessly, based on a proprietary analysis of real-time fluctuations in neural activity measured through electroencephalography (EEG). To date, the device, known as the MUSE, has been tested and refined on younger users. However, seniors are the fastest growing segment of Canada's population, so to maintain its competitive advantage, InteraXon must ensure that the system can be adapted to older users as well. Working with McMaster's Dr. Sekuler and her lab, InteraXon will determine how the current calibration and information control systems function given the constraints of age-related changes in sensory processing and neural signals. Given previous work in Dr. Sekuler's lab, it already has been established that vision, audition, and neural processing changes dramatically throughout our lifetimes. Thus, the MUSE

脑机接口（BCI）是一个快速发展的领域，对加拿大具有巨大的商业利益。加拿大领先的脑机接口公司InteraXon花了数年时间设计和测试一种系统，允许用户无线控制他们的电脑和移动的设备，该系统基于对通过脑电图（EEG）测量的神经活动实时波动的专有分析。到目前为止，这款名为MUSE的设备已经在年轻用户身上进行了测试和改进。然而，老年人是加拿大人口中增长最快的部分，因此为了保持竞争优势，InteraXon必须确保该系统也能适应老年用户。InteraXon将与麦克马斯特的Sekuler博士和她的实验室合作，确定在感官处理和神经信号中与年龄相关的变化的限制下，当前的校准和信息控制系统如何运作。根据Sekovich博士实验室以前的工作，已经确定视觉，听觉和神经处理在我们的一生中会发生巨大变化。因此，