Computer automated experimentation for the control and assessment of the classically conditioned eye blink response

摘要

The classically conditioned eye blink experiment provides another way to study associative learning. This type of associative learning has many important features which are helpful in neurological studies such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Our goal was to design a portable medical device for East Orange, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, which collects electromyogram, electrocardiogram and respiration signals from a human subject for biomedical research studies. The major priorities of this project were to reduce power consumption, person's safety, increase portability and to use the latest technologies for the device. LabView 6.0 was used for this system which collects data from the subject and transferred it to the computer. Hardware components for this system provide acoustic signals, air puff to eye for blinking, and detect condition physiological signals.