Animal Research

Unicorn BCI Core-8 is a wearable EEG device that acquires high-precision data from 8 EEG channels at 24-bit resolution over an uninterrupted Bluetooth 5 connection. Its Snap-In technology attaches it magnetically to different base stations, enabling non-invasive EEG in many species, including dogs, horses, cats, alpacas, cows and goats.

Gold Cup electrodes are easily placed through the animal's coat to obtain high-quality data. EEG is recorded with BCI Core Recorder, stored as CSV or BDF, and can be streamed to external applications over LSL or UDP.

• BCI Core Recorder
• OSCAR LIVE
• g.HIsys
• g.tec Suite 2024
• LSL / UDP
• g.Pype SDK (Python)

Unicorn BCI Core-8 plays a key role in EEG studies of horses, monitoring cognition, stress, emotional regulation, learning, pain perception, sleep and responses to human interaction. Unicorn Gold Cup electrodes, used with an adhesive paste, hold securely between the hairs.

Used with g.tec Suite 2024, it offers valuable insight for optimising training, improving animal welfare and developing effective desensitisation strategies, especially in high-stimulus environments. High-precision EEG monitoring during surgery is also possible.

• Stress
• Pain
• Sleep
• Learning
• Surgical monitoring

Unicorn BCI Core-8 is an ideal solution for canine cognition research: being non-invasive, it records brain activity in real time and helps to understand how dogs process information and respond to stimuli.

Used with g.tec Suite 2024, it provides accurate, reliable EEG data for developing training methods matched to dogs' cognitive strengths, bridging science and practice and contributing to more effective human-dog collaboration.

• Epilepsy
• Anxiety
• Social bonding
• Cognitive ageing

Unicorn BCI Core-8 lets researchers examine how cats perceive their surroundings, process information and respond to different stimuli.

Together with g.tec Suite 2024, notable for its flexibility in designing animal cognition experiments, it yields high-precision EEG data, so researchers can better understand cats' neurological states and assess their behavioural patterns comprehensively.

• Perception
• Cognition
• Sleep
• Neurology

On Merlin the alpaca, Unicorn BCI Core-8 was mounted on the halter and connected to a main unit with 4 Gold Cup electrodes fixed between the hairs. Data were recorded with BCI Core Recorder and streamed over LSL to g.HIsys, where OSCAR LIVE corrected the EEG in real time during movement to reduce artefacts. The same set-up recorded a cow while it was eating.

On Hugo the goat the device was fixed at the neck, and on Lotti the pig on the back, with the electrodes placed on the head. The small electrodes passed between the hairs to make stable skin contact, and clean brain signals were obtained even during movement.

• EEG on the move
• OSCAR LIVE
• Farm animal welfare

Attached magnetically to a modular base station with Snap-In technology, the device is easily reconfigured for animals of different species and sizes. Unicorn BCI Core Base connects the amplifier to the base station and electrodes for stable signal transmission and also serves as the power control unit.

BCI Core Recorder acquires, visualises and records EEG with predefined notch and band-pass filters. Data can be stored as CSV or BDF and streamed over LSL or UDP to g.HIsys, OpenViBE, MATLAB and similar applications.

• 4 or 8 channels
• 24-bit ADC
• 250 Hz
• Bluetooth 5
• 23 g
• > 6 h battery
• Gold Cup and g.SAHARA
• CSV / BDF / LSL / UDP