Rewards and Inhibits with and without thresholds The general rule, for me, is to minimize the number of rewards and inhibits in a session, simply because of the difficulty of providing good feedback.  With one threshold for the brain to pass, you can set a target to provide 80% feedback and have a pretty good chance of doing so.  When you add a second training parameter, you have the potential, even setting both at 80%, to reduce feedback to about […]

Sampling Rate (samples per second) The sampling rate is the number of times each second the amplifier grabs a sample of brain activity and brings it to the software.  It shouldn’t affect the frequency (Hz) or amplitude (microvolts) at all, except that perhaps in very high frequencies a very low sampling rate might show less detail or, in extreme cases, cause a problem called aliasing. In electrical engineering there is the Nyquist Sampling Theorem, which states that a filter can […]

Sync Errors in the software Sync error relates to communication between the amplifier and either its dongle or the computer. BE expects 256 bits of data each second to be coming through the dongle. When something less than that comes, BE warns you that something is interfering with the synchronization of the communication. Most commonly this is the trainer or the client. The Pendant and dongle should be able to “see” each other directly. When you lean between them or […]