Custom-designed by and for the Mind Mirror community, the software's user controls provide quick functionality and penetrating data analysis. Self-trainers, professional Awakened Mind
trainers, and researchers use these functions with confidence and ease.
These can fill the screen or be positioned in any size on the computer monitor.
Instrument choices include the Mind Mirror, the single-frequency BrainMirror, and a wide array of EEG, GSR and BVP data windows. Time series data windows for EEG include sEMG Artifact, numerical
signal quality, Title for a person's name and brief session notes, and several useful accessories: a large timer clock, run reward counter for self-training, countdown timer, in-session
statistics, and breath pacer.
A signal check stoplight for each brain hemisphere continuously monitors signal quality, sEMG artifact, and ambient 60Hz noise.
These are used for recording and summary review and include, in addition to the Mind Mirror display: low, mid and upper Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta Amplitude windows, and Dominant
Frequency for tracking the descent and ascent of consciousness.
Neurofeedback windows include alpha-theta, theta-beta, and more.
Keystroke commands are replicated in a right-click menu. They provide user controls for recording and post-session analysis. The user control options include self-training mode, auto-attenuation,
gamma display, screen snapshot, color schemes, display type (bars, outline, or fill), and refresh rate.
The default refresh rate, or display speed, is markedly slower than the classic Mind Mirror and makes patterns easier to visually track and interpret.
The amplitude (width) of the frequency bars, measured in microvolts, may be adjusted (attenuated) quickly and easily with the up and down arrow keys on the computer keyboard, or auto-attenuation
may be used.
Event markers are set during the session to enable the user to precisely correlate inner experiences with recorded data.
Pressing the space bar, Enter key, or optional Manual Trigger Button sets event markers without interrupting the data stream.
Markers can also be created in summary windows to mark notable events. These markers appear as vertical white lines. The precise timing of events is attained via a second timer clock.
This is an innovative and highly useful tool for analyzing the session, providing an average, or mean, brainwave pattern. The brainwave display can be printed out to visually measure progress.
The Mind Mirror Portal keeps an efficient, convenient record for users.
The Mind Mirror Summary can also be obtained for segments of the session bracketed by event markers. The Summary brainwave pattern is accompanied by a statistical column chart showing how
many times and when the various brainwave patterns were attained.
This provides a static, rolling average of the brainwave pattern during the session for selected increments of time: 1, 2 and 5 minutes or the entire session.
Frame by frame replay can be activated with the left and right arrow keys on the computer keyboard. This enables the study of brainwave patterns one frame at a time.
Changing the refresh rate to a higher speed in replay reveals patterns recorded but invisible at slower speeds.
The slider bar scrolls recorded Mind Mirror patterns backward and forward in time, moving with it all other time series windows.
This clock can be activated by clicking on any point in a summary window and, therefore, provides great precision in data analysis.
The slider bar can be used to scroll to the brainwave pattern associated with a particular point in time, or the user can set event markers in the summary window and jump from one to another with
the "j" keystroke to see related brainwave patterns.
Trend lines provide a moving average of the data in summary windows for EEG, GSR and BVP. The summary window display also includes these options: change the data range, hide the data, remove
artifact, and change the summary window to a black-on-white color scheme to save ink when printed out.
