Natalie Schaworonkow

@nschawor.bsky.social

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investigating electric waves in the brain, thinking about visualization, interfaces, art & beauty with computers. nschawor.github.io

Figure 1: An example of population coding of movement direction. The blue lines represent the vectorial contributions of individual cells in the population (N = 475). The movement direction is in yellow and the direction of the population vector in red.
component isolated from resting state MEG data
source: Kaishi Hen, 1772. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaishi-hen-an-18th-century-japanese-anatomical-atlas/
dot plot of brain prize recipients by year, 2011–2025. each dot represents one winner, blue indicates male and red indicates female.
cool people, follow them!
just random visuals for attention grabbing
cow from here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-9568.philosophical-toolkit
"A History of the Electrical Activity of the Brain" – Mary Brazier
Fig. 1
8 snippets showing 5 seconds of intracranial oscillatory brain activity from an electrodes located in the temporal cortex. brain plot showing the location of the electrode + surrounding electrodes.
EEG from infants, where the alpha rhythm is curiously emerging at 3-4 Hz. from here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33316695/
a blue miniature version of a human brain gets printed layer by layer with a 3D printer
presentation slide with colorful illustrations from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZeH_8sTyKA&t=354s
3D printed brain
Black-and-white scientific illustration of the first EEG topoplot by Koiti Motokawa (1944). G = glabella P = protuberantia occipitalis externa, S = central sulcus