Design and validation of a modular smart headband with embroidered electrodes for comfortable EEG monitoring.
The soft headband detected expected brain rhythms and event-related responses in a small healthy group, with favorable comfort reports. It was not tested as a diagnostic tool or long-term clinical monitor.
Komal K, Cleary F, Narayanan RP, Wells JSG, Buiatti M, Bennett L.
PloS one · Publication date: 2026-09-09
Added to site: 2026-09-10
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347189
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- Modalities
- EEG, ERP, Wearable EEG
- Clinical focus
- Brain monitoring, Brain health
- Population
- Healthy adult participants
- Sample
- 10 participants
- Intervention / method
- Eyes-open and eyes-closed resting EEG plus auditory and visual oddball tasks using six frontal and temporal textile electrodes
- Comparator
- Commercial sponge wet-electrode EEG system
Clinician summary
The embroidered-electrode headband produced comparable spectral and ERP detectability to a wet sponge system across standard resting and oddball tasks in ten participants.
How to interpret the findings
The sample was very small and healthy, tasks were brief and controlled, and the abstract does not establish diagnostic accuracy, durability or performance in clinical settings.
Equipment and disclosures
A six-electrode neoprene headband with adjustable, replaceable embroidered textile electrodes was compared with a commercial sponge wet-electrode system; product brands were not verified from the abstract.
Funding and competing-interest disclosures were not verified from the reviewed abstract.
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