[kcoul]

I've been looking for a good modern overview like this since I became interested in the OpenBCI project that finally has some devices shipping.

During my CS degree I wrote one paper with numerous citations from the field of neuroscience, as I was trying to make a case for ways to change the way we teach and learn so as to build more robust memory models of the things we are trying to memorize. The case I used in my paper was pieces of notated sheet music, but I believe the same principles could hold in areas like language learning (whether computer languages or human) or mathematics equally well.

I'd like to build/buy a good enough EEG to show that specific patterns emerge when we achieve the specific kind of focus that allows for this optimally efficient kind of learning to take place. (The implication being that if we are able to induce this type of brainwave pattern rather than expect the individual to achieve it on their own, then we might be able to make a significant step forward in the field of educational neuroscience).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_neuroscience