{"id":3778,"date":"2016-10-13T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:02:23","slug":"intro-to-teon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/intro-to-teon\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the 2016 Mozilla Science Fellows: Teon Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello world! My name is Teon<\/a>, I’m from Charlotte, NC (Go Hornets!), and a Carolina alum\u00a0(Go\u00a0Heels!). I am finishing my PhD at NYU in cognitive neuroscience (defending today! Oct 13! #TeonDefends<\/a>). Soon I will be a researcher at\u00a0The Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

As a researcher, I am interested in understanding how the brain processes language via its storage and retrieval. I am also interested in understanding what exactly does this “mental dictionary” of words look like.\"brain_glasses\"<\/a>\"brain_book\"<\/p>\n

I use some pretty cool technology:<\/p>\n

I use a machine called an MEG, which stands for magnetoencephalogram. It kind of looks like Cerebro, and we use it to measure very, very small, like femto-Telsa (0.000000000000001\u00a0T!) small, magnetic fields that our brain produces when it does a task.<\/p>\n

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This is Professor Xavier using Cerebro.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is a magnetoencephalogram. It measures tiny magnetic fields in the brain.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I also use eye-tracking equipment. This allows me to look at your eyes as they scan the world and take in information. I use it to understand the eye movement behavior the brain produces to process\u00a0\u00a0written text. I look at the way your eyes from word to word, sometimes staying a short while or sometimes hopping along\u00a0to the next word.<\/p>\n

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This is a head-mounted eyetracker from Pupil Labs. #opensource<\/p><\/div>\n

I also work on developing software that allows us to take all this data in and make sense out of it. There are two major projects that I am working on: the MNE project and the OpenEXP project.<\/p>\n

MNE is a community-based project for researchers and developers who are interested in analysis M<\/strong>EG an<\/strong>d E<\/strong>EG data (see what we did there ;) ).<\/p>\n

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The OpenEXP project is envisioned as a collection of projects to make science great again! Its core product, expfactory<\/a>, developed\u00a0by Vanessa<\/a>,\u00a0allows us to run a battery of psychology experiments on the interwebs. A related product, openexp<\/a>, developed by me and Andy<\/a>, aims to build on this and jsPsych<\/a> and create a desktop-friendly app for researchers and learners, alike.<\/p>\n

We want to build on this core product, and re-imagine how experimental psychology and cognitive science is taught. There are developing plans to redo introductory psychology with hands-on experiments, coding, and more.<\/p>\n

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Me volunteering with the Biobus<\/p><\/div>\n

I love teaching and I recently piloted a new workshop on DIY Cognitive Science. With my friend, Piya, and our awesome team of volunteer instructors, we taught a two-day workshop<\/a> in Bangkok, Thailand (#DIYSciThai) on building eye-trackers and EEG headsets. Our goal is to team up\u00a0with the OpenEXP project and teach coding, hardware hacking, and basic cognitive science, making it accessible to all.<\/p>\n

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Me demoing a DIY eyetracker and EEG headset<\/p><\/div>\n

Follow along my adventure. My goal is to create open-source software that help researchers get stuff done, learners get stuff learned, and bring science to everyone in an accessible way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter: @teon_io<\/a>
\nWebsite: teonbrooks.github.io<\/a>
\nGitHub: @teonbrooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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