NeuroTechEDU's Awesome List of BCI-related Resources

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Table of Contents

1. Software
   • Stand Alone BCI Applications
   • Matlab Toolboxes
   • Python Toolboxes
   • Android Toolboxes
   • Brain Visualizations
   • RaspberryPi Framework
   • Communication Protocols
2. Hardware
   • EEG
     • Consumer and DIY EEG Devices
     • Research EEG Devices
     • BCI Products
     • EEG Parts
   • NIRS Devices
   • Multimodal Neurotech
   • Upcoming NeuroImaging Tech
3. Brain Databases
4. Consultants For Hire
5. Tutorials and Project Ideas
6. Communities and Blogs
   • Blogs
   • Forum
7. Competitions
   • Data Competitions
     
   • Brain Controlled Competitions
8. Conferences and Events
9. Reading Material
   • Papers
   • Introductory Books
   • Technical Books
   • Signal Processing
10. Other Resources

Software

Stand Alone BCI Applications

These applications do not require any form of dependencies for it to work. Essentially download the program, install it, and you are good to go!

• OpenVibe
• BCI2000
• Brainstorm
• BrainBay
• EventIDE

Matlab Toolboxes

• EEGLab
• FieldTrip
• BCILab
• BBCI
• ERPLAB
• Psychtoolbox
• Chronux

Python Toolboxes

• Thunder
• Pyff
• Mushu
• Wyrm
• EEGrunt
• Cloudbrain
• Python MNE
• OpenNFB
• bcikit
• PsychoPy
• BioSPPy
• Timeflux
• EEGsynth

Android Toolboxes

• EEG-101
• NeuroSky Android SDK

Brain Visualizations

• BrainBox
• BrainBrowser

RaspberryPi Framework

• IntelliPi

Communication Protocols

These are some of the commonly used Communication protocols

• Lab Streaming Layer
• Open Sound Control
• FieldTrip buffer

Hardware

This section is separated into different sections based on the type of technology.

EEG

Electroencephalography is the most commonly used form of Neurotechnology. There are many options out there meaning that you can easily find a device that matches your needs and price.

Consumer and DIY Devices

• OpenBCI
• icibici
• Emotiv EPOC & Insight
• Emotiv Insight
• Neurosky
• OpenEEG
• EEG-SMT by Olimex
• FreeEEG32: an open source 32 channel eeg
• Muse
• HackEEG

Research Devices

• Wearable Sensing Dry Electrode EEG
• g.BCIsys
• EGI High Density EEG
• Biosemi
• ANT Neuro
• Advanced Brain Monitoring

EEG BCI Products

These devices use different brain signals for specific use cases (Such as sleeping, controlling a toy, etc). * Muse * Puzzlebox * Aurora * Mattel Mindflex * ~~The Aware~~ (inactive, failed kickstarter)

EEG Parts

• Florida Research Instruments
• TI ADS1299EEG-FE
• DIY Electrode Design
• Comparison of different types of electrodes
• Intan Technologies

NIRS Research Devices

• Artinis Medical Systems
• Hitachi Hightech
• NIRx
• Shimadzu

Multimodal Neurotech

These devices combine different type of sensors to measure or influence brain activity. * Foc.us Dev kit: EEG,TDCS,fNIRS,TACS * Neuroelectrics: EEG,TDCS * BITalino: EEG,EMG,ECG,EDA

Brain Stimulation

• DIY TMS

Upcoming NeuroImaging Tech

• Functional Ultrasound
• FPGA Ultrasound Imaging on a Raspberry Pi
• Event Related Optical Signal
• Event-Related Optical Signal
• Quasi-Ballistic Photons. (The Tech being used by Facebook's BCI)
• Open Electrical Impedance Tomography

Diffused Optical Imaging Ressources.

This is the tech being used by Mary Lou Jepken's company Openwater. She's aiming to build a portable MRI.

• Diffuse optical imaging/ The tech being used by
• Diffuse Optical Imaging pt. 2

Brain Databases

• SCCN list of eeg/erp data for free public download
• EEG studies with the raw data - (from BigEEG Consortium)
• BNCI Horizon Data Sets
• g.tec biosignal Data Sets
• The Child Mind Institute MIPDB Dataset
• RAM (DARPA) Invasive Recording Dataset from U. Penn
• MindBigData MNIST of Brain Digits
• MindBigData ImageNet of The Brain
• meagmohit's List of EEG Datasets

Consultants For Hire

• Push The World

Tutorials and Project Ideas

• How to Hack Toy EEGs
• BCI Workshop
• Introduction to Modern BCI
• Brain-Controlled Shark Attack
• Controlling a sphero with a muse
• Building a 20 Euro EEG for your smartphone
• Muse File Reader for OpenVibe
• EEG 101: Interactive tutorial for Android and Muse
• Brainwave analyzer
• BCI Course offered by Columbia University
• BCI Course at Berkeley by Pierre of NeuroTechX
• EEG and MRI Course offered by OHBM
• EEG Notebooks: Jupyter notebooks with classic EEG experiments for beginners

Communities and Blogs

Forums

• NeuroBB
• OpenBCI Community
• Muse Community
• NeuroSky
• Emotiv

Blogs

• Autodidact
• Strfry
• Fabien Lotte
• Chip Audette EEG Hacker
• Atlants Embedded
• Alexandre Barachant
• Pierre Karashchuk
• Jeremy Frey
• Irene Vigué Guix

Competitions

Data Competitions

• Kaggle Grasp and Lift
• Kaggle Error Detection
• Kaggle Decode the Human Brain
• Kaggle Seizure Prediction
• Kaggle Seizure Detection
• Decoding Brain Signals
• BCI Competition

Brain Controlled Competitions

• Brain Drone Competition
• Cybathlon

Conferences and Events

• List: Curated list of events (BCI Society)
• BCI Meeting
• NeuroGaming / XTech(Youtube Videos)
• CHI
• BrainTech
• Brain Summit
• NIPS
• SfN

Reading Material

Papers

• MultiClass Brain-Computer INterface Classification by Riemannian Geometry
• A New Generation of Brain-Computer Interface Based on Riemannian Geometry
• My Virtual Dream: Collective Neurofeedback in an Immersive Art Environment
• BCI Competition IV – Data Set I: Learning Discriminative Patterns for Self-Paced EEG-Based Motor Imagery Detection
• Single-Trial Analysis and Classification of ERP Components – a Tutorial
• Interpretable Deep Neural Networks for Single-Trial EEG Classification
• Large-Scale Assessment of a Fully Automatic Co-Adaptive Motor Imagery-Based Brain Computer Interface
• Word pair classification during imagined speech using direct brain recording
• Brain-Computer Interfaces Review, Nicolelis & Lebedev. 2017
• High-speed spelling with a noninvasive brain–computer interface
• A high-speed brain-computer interface (BCI) using dry EEG electrodes

Introductory Books

• Beyond Boundaries (Nicolellis)
• Rhythms of Brain (Buzsaki)
• Cycles in mind (Cohen)
• Principles of Neural Science (Kandel et al)
• The Future of the Mind (Kaku)

Technical Books

• Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction (Rao)
• Brain Computer Interfaces (Wolpaw)
• Analyzing Neural Time Series Data (Cohen)
• Imaging Brain Function with EEG (Freeman & Quiroga)
• Matlab for Neuroscientists
• Biomedical Optics
• iMotions Top 10 EEG Books

Signal Processing

• Signals & Systems MIT Class
• Berkeley DSP class lectures, page
• Signals & Systems (Oppenheim, Willsky, Hamid)
• Discrete-Time Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Oppenheim, Schafer, Buck)
• Data analysis lecturelets (Mike X Cohen)

Other Resources

• Neuroscience Summer Schools
• Neuroscience Duke Course (Coursera)
• Brede Wiki
• Novel Neurotechnologies Intervening in the Brain
• Augment Human Cognitition by optimizing cortical oscillations
• Open Neuroscience - a user-driven database of Open Source/Science projects related to Neurosciences