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Studying frequency processing of the brain to enhance long-term memory and develop a human brain protocol

Issue title: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology (iCBEB 2014), 25–28 September 2014, Beijing, China

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Guest editors: Edward J. Ciaccio

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Friedrich, Wernhera | Du, Shengzhib; * | Balt, Karlienc

Affiliations: [a] School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa | [b] The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa | [c] Neurofeedback, Lynnwood, Pretoria, South Africa

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Shengzhi Du, The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. E-mail:dus@tut.ac.za

Keywords: Electroencephalography (EEG), signal processing, brain protocol, long-term memory, hippocampus

DOI: 10.3233/THC-150983

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 23, no. s2, pp. S465-S471, 2015

Published: 2015
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The temporal lobe in conjunction with the hippocampus is responsible for memory processing. The gamma wave is involved with this process. To develop a human brain protocol, a better understanding of the relationship between gamma and long-term memory is vital.

OBJECTIVE: A more comprehensive understanding of the human brain and specific analogue waves it uses will support the development of a human brain protocol.

METHODS: Fifty-eight participants aged between 6 and 60 years participated in long-term memory experiments. It is envisaged that the brain could be stimulated through binaural beats (sound frequency) at 40 Hz (gamma) to enhance long-term memory capacity. EEG recordings have been transformed to sound and then to an information standard, namely ASCII.

RESULTS: Statistical analysis showed a proportional relationship between long-term memory and gamma activity. Results from EEG recordings indicate a pattern. The pattern was obtained through the de-codification of an EEG recording to sound and then to ASCII.

CONCLUSIONS: Stimulation of gamma should enhance long term memory capacity. More research is required to unlock the human brains' protocol key. This key will enable the processing of information directly to and from human memory via gamma, the hippocampus and the temporal lobe.

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