Our target is to provide consulting and technology development services around the world.

Our clients include both public and private organizations interested in investigating brain function.  Since we specialize in investigations dealing with pharmaceutical development and serious game development, these two client-types are preferred.  However, since we are a research organization, we will consider other contexts if the parameters of the experiment are suitable.

Our clientele requiring behavioral study design or analysis of ECG, GSR, eye-movement, EEG data, or a combination thereof include and are not limited to:

• pharmaceutical developers and their contract research organizations
• brain disease foundations that investigate therapies for specific diseases
• university laboratories that study the effects of pharmaceutical therapies
• university laboratories in Psychology that study the brain-behaviour relationship
• university laboratories in Computer Science developing gaming technology
• neuropsychology clinics that develop brain function assessment & therapy programs
• public and private organizations providing biofeedback and neuro-assessment services
• neuromarketing companies developing devices and algorithms to extract information about engagement and affect

Past Clients and Collaborators:

 
• University of Victoria (Eye-tracking and EEG equipment design and data analysis)


(1) “Dr. Zeman is a highly innovative visionary who has an engineer’s drive to build things that actually work. He has applied some very abstract principles of mathematical wave analysis to the very practical, but difficult problem of deciphering the meaning of neural activity in multiple areas. By analysing EEG, which is relatively simple and inexpensive to collect, he has been able to surpass the localization capabilities of sophisticated ERP (Event-related Potential) systems and begin to approximate the data gathered from incredibly expensive and ‘difficult-to-use’ fMRI. Such work, when coming out of multi-million-dollar projects in major neuroscience institutions gets published in Science or Nature inspires newspaper articles and youtube videos. Without the fanfare, Dr. Zeman is making comparable advances in our ability to understand the brain. The MOST-EEG system that Dr. Zeman has developed has great potential to lead to new discoveries in connectionist functional neuroanatomy which in turn will improve our understanding of brain-behaviour and brain-thought relations. This system has obvious potential to reveal disturbances in normal brain activity and functional connections due to damage. This may eventually lead to the best brain-computer interface. However, it has a more immediate potential to uncover changes in neural activity and function due to intrinsic neurochemical disturbances, and therefore should be able to quickly evaluate the effectiveness of a particular pharmacotherapy to restore normal function.” ~ Dr. Ron Skelton, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria.

(2) “As collaborators, Philip Zeman and I remain committed to advancing our research methods. Phil combines creative and analytical approaches and is continually upgrading algorithms as well as maintaining hardware systems. We are submitting a methods paper proving our eye tracking method for differentiating spatial strategies people use while navigating in 3D video game environments. We have also begun analysis of a large set of eye movement data collected from research participants at the University of Victoria and in the local Victoria community. My dissertation work in behavioural neuropsychology continues to benefit from Phil’s experience and without hesitation I recommend him to prospective clients and collaborators. ” ~ Sharon Lee, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria.

• Vancouver Island University (Eye-tracking equipment design)
• Private Researcher in the UK (EEG analysis)
• Private Company in Europe (GSR, ECG, Eye-tracking product design and data analysis)

(1) “Philip Zeman has acted as external consultant on an R & D project aimed at developing software architecture for analyzing biological signals recorded via dry-electrodes. His task included:

- Identification of normality of recorded physiological data, and
- Creation of wavelet algorithms and subsequent automated matlab routines to read, preprocess, clean & analyse biological data.

Philip excelled at all task and delivered with a very tight schedule detailed analyses and results which allowed the company to present valuable information to their clients.

Philip also worked as an external consultant on an R & D project aimed at developing dry electrodes. His tasks included, amongst other things, in debugging hardware (and acquisition software) and identify and correct sources of:

-Transmission errors,
-Interpolation errors, and
-Temporal errors with respect to triggering of events.

During this period, Philip provided value information with respect to the optimal data handling programming structures.
Working with Philip has always been a true pleasure. He has been an intellectual inspiration, is always friendly, approachable, and helpful and always solves the challenges he is faced with intelligently. I wholeheartedly recommend Philip to anybody involved in either psychophysiological research or hardware development projects.” ~ S.A.

Including ABV Sciences in your drug or serious game development program

To discuss working together in an investigation of brain function and behavior you may contact us by telephone or by email and we can set-up an informational discussion to address your questions. In this discussion, we can present more detailed information about the services we provide and the capabilities of our analysis technology. We can also discuss our prior work in more detail and show how we have helped prior clients. If you would like technical information about MOST-EEG and our methodologies, see our Request Technical Information page.

Applied Brain and Vision Sciences was founded to change the way we understand brain function and treat brain diseases. Simply, we believe there is a ‘better’ way to diagnose and treat brain disease and dysfunction. We believe that through appropriate therapies and objective measures of functional brain activity and other bio-signals during the course of these therapies, we can make health-related and technological advances to significantly impact lives. Application of our ‘sciences’ in multiple contexts provides us with opportunities to improve our understanding of brain function and develop new technology to measure it.