ConSole / News: Recent posts

After one year of developing, ConSole 0.1.2 brings a lot of new feature and several fixed bugs to the user.

Whats new?
* We changed to BDF as the default fileformat. Although you are still free to use the Simple Binary Matrix format, you are encouraged to switch as the BDF is a widely accepted format for electrophysiological data and can save much more information.
* Better handling of artifacts: Besides using the ICA-method, which is still available and favorable at some times, you can now do artifact rejection. Two modules are introduced in this release, both act on blocks of data. One checks blocks for bad channels (muting them by default) by calculating the maximum absolute amplitude and the variance. The remaining trial is also discarded if one of these values is too high. The other module checks for peaks in the frequency spectrum of the block. If no peak is found at the designated frequency, the block is discarded.
* Besides using the internal routines for source-projection, we added a module that reads in read built leadfield and applies it to the data. This enhances the flexibility of ConSole even further.
* A module to apply a hilbert transform on the data was added.
* Bandpass filtering is now supported.... read more

Two weeks after the initial release of ConSole, the Constance System for OnLine EEG, the first bug-fix release is released to the public. Besides fixing important bugs, minor features have as well been added, of course without breaking compatibility.

Bugs fixed:
* ANT Source now runs flawless.
* Binary Matrix Writer is now buffered. I see this as a resolved bug as the former version used to block the system thus making it much slower.
* The outport now waits 10ms if the queue is full. Increases responsivness of the system.... read more

After three years of development, I am proud to announce the first public release of ConSole.
ConSole is a free, modular and portable framework to design and conduct real-time EEG (and in the future also MEG) experiments. It provides a clean GUI for the investigator running the experiment, an easy-to-learn description of experiments via XML and a clean and well documented interface for developers to develop their own modules.... read more