Xu Cui

 

   



564 Stories by Xu Cui

3 monitors

To be more “productive”, I recently upgraded my work space. I used to have 2 monitors side by side. Both of them are View Sonic but they are of different size and one is old. So I purchased two monitors (Dell U2415). Together with one ori
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MatLab tip, save data in compressed mode

I have a mat file which is 100+M in size. It would be fine normally but since I was trying to upload it to github, it was rejected due to its big size. Fortunately there is a way to reduce the size: save it again in the compressed mode. After I load
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OpenBCI EEG

Manish Saggar in our lab brought something very cool – a helmet like EEG system. He called it “dry” EEG because it does not requite gel. The design is not polished, but it’s cheap, like $800. And it does not need long wires to
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Some tips to use wavelet toolbox

Wavelet toolbox is a useful tool to study hyperscanning data. Many recent publications on NIRS hyperscanning use wavelet coherence to quantify the relationship between two interacting brains (e.g. Baker et al 2016, Nozawa et al 2016). You can see mor
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Just published a paper: Men vs Women, are they different in cooperation?

We just published a big and long study. It is a NIRS hyperscanning study aiming to investigate the brain difference between men and women during cooperation. We have scanned 222 people! And it is one of the largest NIRS study I have seen. And it is a
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Hitachi ETG4000 on ebay, for less than $10,000

In our lab meeting today we accidentally discovered that you can actually purchase a used ETG4000 on ebay! The seller asked for $9,995. When we purchased ETG4000 back in 2007, it costed us about half million! Check it out: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hit
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fNIRS 2016

fNIRS 2016 conference will be held in Paris, October 13 – 16, Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 75006, FRANCE Check out the society’s home page: http://www.fnirs2016.org/ The 2016 conference will take place in cen
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DDoS Attack Threat

I recently received an email who threatens to attack a server I am running – unless I pay them 0.2 Bitcoin (about $93 US dollars). Anybody know how to handle this? Below is the email: —– From: [email protected] subject li
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Who cited my paper?

Back in 2010 we published a paper titled “Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) signal improvement based on negative correlation between oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin dynamics“. It is about a really simple method which sur
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