December 26, 2006
Mindball: EEG Game
This week the Mindball championship is being held at The Science Museum in London. According to the museum, the winner will be crowned Britain's Most Relaxed Mind.
Mindball is a game in which two players compete to push a ball over the other's goal line. But there's a catch--this is a game of mind over matter and the way to win is to relax. Each player is wired up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine which records the electrical activity in the brain. Certain frequencies of signal are associated with different mental activities--for example, gamma waves with a frequency above 26 Hz are associated with higher mental activities such as problem solving.
However, you need to produce theta waves (4-8 Hz) which are associated with drowsiness and alpha waves (8-12 Hz) which are associated with being relaxed. So the more relaxed you are, the better you're going to be at this game.
More information at the Science Museum
Posted by rsk at December 26, 2006 10:33 PM