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I Scanned My Brain With Headphones to Gauge My Stress While Gaming

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Up in a hotel room during CES 2026, I sat down at a gaming laptop to play a target-practice program. After testing my first-person shooter skills, I put on headphones lined with capacitive bands that read my brain activity, and on the laptop screen, a visualization of my mental stress slowly diminished as I did some relaxed breathing. I tried the target practice again and, voila, I did better.

Neurable, the company behind the software, has been scanning brains for a decade to research soldiers' brain activity for the US Army. The company recently released its brain-computer interfaces as over-ear headphones like the ones I wore. But at this year's CES, it showcased a new frontier for their research: improving gamers' performance by showing their brain activity during intense play sessions.

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