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From XR to EEG: Atif Mahmud on Turning Brainwaves into Actionable Signals
This week: the gap between reading a brain signal and understanding what it means.
I spoke with Atif Mahmud, a computational neuroscience researcher building real time EEG neurofeedback tools for children's emotional regulation, about the hard problems in translating brain data into usable insight.
We cover:
→ Why brain activity readings can be misleading without context
→ How gaming architecture solved real time neurofeedback delivery
→ Mindful, an EEG tool helping children self regulate
→ The rigor gap between engineering and science
→ A closing thought experiment on privacy versus…
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