Biopac student lab

[1] The advent of low cost personal computers meant that older analog technologies could be replaced with powerful and less expensive computerized alternatives.

[2] Students in undergraduate teaching labs use the BSL system to record data from their own bodies, animals or tissue preparations.

[3] Physiology and electricity share a common history, with some of the pioneering work in each field being done in the late 18th century by Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta and Luigi Galvani.

The electrodes and transducers employ sensors that allow the software to communicate with the students to ensure that they are using the correct devices and collecting good data.

Once students have collected data, they use analysis tools to measure the amplitude and frequency, plus a wide range of other values from the electrical signals.