A low-end device to convert EEG waves to music

128th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 104-110

  Trevisan, Adrian Attard ^a   Jones, Lewis ^b  

^a St Martins Institute of Information Technology   (Malta)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN WAVE; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; MUSIC INTERFACES; NEUROFEEDBACK; PIANO NOTES; PORTABLE SYSTEM; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 84866015672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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