Doors: 3:30 || Talk: 4 || $10 Setting: Seated Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are tools that can translate thought without movement. They are used for coma, stroke, art, mainstream applications, medical apps but they are also used in science fiction! Join local science-guy Dr. Brendan Allison for an interesting afternoon of the cool ways BCI’s are being used. Dr. Allison has been active in EEG research for over 25 years, most of which involved brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 2003 at UC San Diego, where he focused on BCIs based on visual attention (primarily P300) and imagined movement. He has since worked with several top researchers and institutes, including Prof. Wolpaw at the New York State Dept of Health, Prof. Polich at The Scripps Research Institute, and Profs. Pfurtscheller and Neuper at Graz University of Technology. He returned to his alma mater and is again with the Cognitive Science Dept. at UCSD.