Cognitive Neuroscience at BITS Goa

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A Cognitive Neuroscience Lab of Birla Institute Of Technology And Science,Goa, India

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Geodesic EEG System 400

32 channel Geodesic EEG monitoring and amplification.

Workstation

Data processing in Geodesic EEG netstation plus Workstation.

Scholars

Research scholars and undergraduates for assistance.

Isolation

Isolated chamber for reduced noise in data acquisition.

Epoc

Auto-Epoch detection and Institutional licenced MATLAB for signal postprocessing.

Emotiv EPOC+

A revolutionary Neuroheadset and Scientific Contextual EEG offering high resolution and full spatial resolution.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

Michio Kaku

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

Our team

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Dr.Veeky Baths

Ph.D.

Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Dr.Lizy Kanungo

Ph.D.

Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Gautam

Post Graduate

Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Mayur Jartarkar

Postgraduate

Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Subrat Pathak

Undergraduate

Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Smit Rajguru

Undergraduate

Department of E & I Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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T. Sai Ruthvik

Graduate

Department of E & I, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Advait Balaji

Graduate

Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

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Amey Desai

Graduate

Department of Electronics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

Ongoing Research

HA

Home Automation

The aim is to present a novel brain computer interface based home automation system using two responses - Steady State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) and the eyeblink artifact, augmented by a Bluetooth based indoor localization system, to greatly increase the number of controllable devices. We have successfully implemented an IOT system that showcases device control using EEG. We have also implemented electric wheelchair control using SSVEP and eye blinks for quadraplegic patients.
ND

Neuro-
degeneration

Ever wonder how millions of neurons work together when you indulge into an ice cream? Right now you might be recollecting the most recent time you had an ice cream. The brain is a brilliant piece of machinery and when it doesn't work like, as a well-oiled machine should, its utter chaos. My research focus is to find out how the machine starts to decrease in its functional efficiency under neurodegenerative diseases by utilizing graph theory and signal processing techniques
NM

Neuromarketing Techniques

The Human Decision Making process is driven by two Systems, a Sub-conscious System which is driven by emotion resulting in people taking instant decisions and a Conscious System which is driven by reason & deliberation leading to a significant delay in Decision making. The Sub-Conscious System accounts for about 95% of daily decisions. Neuromarketing aims at understanding better the Sub-Conscious System with the aid of Neurological tools and Brain Response measuring technologies like ElectroEncephaloGraph (EEG) and use this knowledge to improve consumer experience of the product.

Publications

Publications

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Conference/Journal Details
1.
Home Automation Using SSVEP & Eye-Blink Detection Based Brain-Computer Interface.
Kratarth Goel, Raunaq Vohra, Anant Kamath, and Veeky Baths.
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 5-8, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.
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EEG-based Classification of Bilingual Unspoken Speech using ANN
Advait Balaji, Aparajita Haldar, Keshav Patil, T Sai Ruthvik, Valliappan CA, Mayur Jartarkar,and Veeky Baths
39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC'17) , JeJu Island, S. Korea, 11-15 July 2017.
3.
Study of Motor Imagery for Multiclass Brain System Interface with a Special Focus in the Same Limb Movement
Mohit Patil, Nikhil Garg, Lizy Kanungo and Veeky Baths
18th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing.
4.
Psychological and Neural Evidence for Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
Ajay Subramanian, Sharad Chitlangia, Veeky Baths.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00609, 2020 - arxiv.org
5.
Modelling Causal Reasoning in Language with Multi-Head Self-AttentionWeights based Counterfactual Detection.
R.Patil,V.Baths
CNRL at SemEval-2020 Task 5
6.
Multicollinearity Analysis for Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Regression Algorithms.
P Mehra, R Gupta, A Mahajan, V Baths.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM 4th International Conference on Biomedical Imaging, Signal Processing.

Erasmus+ iBrain Project

The iBrain Project at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus is sponsored by Erasmus+ and is being carried out jointly with 5 other universities in European Union and Russia.For more details visit. http://ibrain.eu/en

iBrain Project Resources

1. Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience  Course Handout
2. Computational Neuroscience - Reading Course

Course Handout

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3. Theoretical Neuroscience

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4. AI Neuroscience Journal Club

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5. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurochemistry (SNCI-2020)

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6. Round Table Track: Data Issues In Cognitive Neuroscience

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