Hearing brainwaves: Epilepsy EEG sonified



"An (EEG) records and measures the of the brain. The key brain wave signals associated with epilepsy repeat about five times per second. But this frequency is too low for the to hear, so using sonification we speed up the signal by 60 times.

"At that speed, normal becomes audible and sounds like normal background noise, for example, a murmur of voices and a squeaky computer or air conditioning fan.


EEG, or monitoring of , is the best and most common test used to diagnose epilepsy. However, learning how to diagnose epilepsy is difficult, labour intensive and takes years to master. The team's method has been tested on a group of non-experts.









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