Sep 14, 2021 | electrocardiography, physiology, psychophysiology, respiration
Life is a series of events—some are planned while others catch us completely by surprise. This holds true in the lab where the quality of experiments and data depend on accurately identifying, tracking, and sorting key events as they occur. Events like the introduction of stimuli and a test subject’s reaction directly impact data.
Aug 17, 2021 | animal research, Education, Life Science Data, physiology, psychophysiology, Teaching physiology
The global COVID-19 pandemic made in-person lab work impossible under many circumstances and difficult in the best of conditions. Now, as researchers and students begin to return to the lab, an opportunity presents itself for a fresh start. One way in which labs are refreshing their approach to research and education is by adding software and equipment that allows for the automation of procedures and analysis with the goal of increasing repeatability and reproducibility within experiments and research.
Jul 21, 2021 | Electrodermal, Life Science Data, psychophysiology, Stimulators
Our nervous system processes information from a dizzying array of stimuli—visual, auditory, thermal, olfactory, and tactile, among others. How organisms respond to stimuli provides researchers with a wealth of information on how they adapt, learn, and live. The...
Jun 22, 2021 | consumer behavior, electrocardiography, Electrodermal, Life Science Data, psychophysiology
When formulating an approach to a research study, planning experiments, and choosing the right technology for the job, size matters. Research studies with human subjects generally fall into three scale-related categories: individual, small-group, and large-group...
Apr 19, 2021 | Education, Teaching physiology
Students entering the rigorous Biomedical Engineering (BME) discipline learn a gamut of separate physiological signals to best study healthcare applications of new technology. Simply put, as new, advanced medical devices make their way into the market, biomedical...
Mar 16, 2021 | functional near infrared
As the most crucial organ of the human body that quintessentially defines humanity, the brain is still our greatest puzzle to solve. Medical doctors, neuroscientists, physiological scientists, and others have been trying to understand how its functions affect our...
Feb 23, 2021 | Life Science Data, psychophysiology, respiration
This guest post was written by Michael Hogan, BIOPAC’s Southeast Regional Representative. Contact him at michaelh@biopac.com Even trained psychologists can be daunted by the interdisciplinary applications involved with recording objective physiological data....
Jan 20, 2021 | Life Science Data
Not to spike our own signal about it, but we really love recording EEG. In fact, over 6,500 research & scientific citations have been published recording EEG with BIOPAC equipment. So, let’s think about EEG. Why do we love this signal and when should you be...
Dec 11, 2020 | Education, Remote Learning, respiration
A common thread uniting the world community is near-universal agreement that 2020 has been the most challenging year in decades. From young to old, life as we know it has been upended. Virtually everything we have come to take for granted, from employment, to...
Nov 19, 2020 | Life Science Data
With the variety of modern data acquisition tools at our disposal, acquiring high quality physiological data has become much less of a challenge than in times past. Following some basic guidelines will usually result in very good data without a lot of mystery or...
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