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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Littlefield, Melissa M., author.     Subjects     Electroencephalography -- Instruments.     Biosensors.     Electroencephalography -- instrumentation.     Wearable Electronic Devices.     Monitoring, Physiologic -- instrumentation.     Biosensing Techniques.     Elektroencephalographie     Neurowissenschaften.     Biosensor     Biosensors.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Littlefield, Melissa M., author.       by title:      Instrumental intimac...         MARC Display

Instrumental intimacy : EEG wearables & neuroscientific control / Melissa M. Littlefield. by Littlefield, Melissa M., author. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Description:  xiv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Public displays of arousal : EEG wearables and the aesthetics of transparency -- In the zone : better training through alpha and beta waves -- 'Such a natural thing' : EEG sleep science in the laboratory and bedroom -- Neurogeography and the city : EEG's collaborative cartographies -- Conclusion : from souffle to signs of death : instrumental intimacy about us, without us. Summary:  "From Fitbits to GPS trackers, wearables promise to help us understand and improve ourselves in quantified ways. We count our steps, track our location, and even monitor our brain waves as we strive to achieve better fitness, clearer direction, or a more focused mind. But why do we rely on wearables to learn about ourselves? In Instrumental Intimacy, Melissa M. Littlefield questions our desire for mechanistic guidance by examining brain-based EEG wearables that promise to improve sleep, relationships, self-knowledge, and learning. Littlefield focuses specifically on EEGs’ transition out of the laboratory and into the hands of consumers. While other brain-imaging technologies (such as MRI, PET, and MEG) are used only in specialized laboratories, human electroencephalography (a.k.a. EEG) is embedded in portable, user-friendly devices. These direct-to-consumer wearables visualize brain activity as accessible data, and many offer the promise of self-optimization. Littlefield’s illuminating book brings the histories of EEG to bear on the contemporary development of EEG wearables via case studies of EEG-based sleep aids, bio-mapping instruments, fashionable surveillance tools, and athletic training devices. The author argues that, over the past century, applied uses of EEG helped to create new states of mind to be monitored and manipulated, as well as discourses about the existence of brain waves and their viability as a tool for brain optimization. By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology."--Publisher's description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 616.12 Lit 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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