Hmmm…..

This is my first post on the Biology Studies. And it seems nothing to tell beside my final project! Yeah, my final project…

I’m doing a project at the field of cognitive neuroscience. My core topic is visual perception on the brain. I’m using cat as my animal object and EEG (electroencephalography) for the analysis device.

Yes! It’s brain wave! I’m using brainwave as the research object. But the analysis I’ll use seems not to be the comparison of each with other brainwave types. I couldn’t found the database (or the comparative data) about the brainwave in cats. Human? Sure it has really much literatures.

As mammals, human and cat has a similarities in the brain structure. And sure, the structure similarities mean functional (or in biology, we call it as physiology, respectively) similarities too. I learned it from Dr. Andrzej Wrobel, a professor from Necnki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, Poland, via e-mail. He also gave me one of his papers, that really help me to design my research methods. Thanks, Professor!

Although the statement above could be used for my research, I prefer not to do it. It’s because the research using EEG in my department has never performed before. It means that I will be the first people who do this kind of research (ow yeahh…!!) and there’s no former experience as well as the former local literature!! Learn from these cases, I guess it would be better to do the analysis and comparison not by the type of brainwaves, but by the frequencies, amplitudes, and other data I’ll find. I’ll analysis and discuss the data without directed interpretations, as scientists often do in human (such as beta rhythm meant bla bla bla, gamma mean bla bla bla, etc). It will be really hard, I know. But I think the analysis would be better than if I compare the brainwave types while I don’t even have any source and reference of it. I hope…

Well, for the first, I guess that’s enough. I’ll write my next stories next time…