Lab Streaming Layer(LSL)

Lab Streaming Layer (LSL) is a protocol for the unified collection and synchronization of time-series data from multiple sensors and applications in real time. It provides precise timestamping and seamless network-based sharing of physiological, behavioral, and experimental data.

LSL with Mentalab Hypersync

By combining LSL with Mentalab Hypersync, users can acquire, visualize, and record data with sub-millisecond accuracy in just a few simple steps.

Follow the instructions delivered to you with your Mentalab Hypersync system or contact us for more information at: contact@mentalab.com

LSL features in Explore Desktop

With Explore Desktop users can:

  • Push data to LSL

  • Plot External markers, for example from stimulus presentation software, in real-time in Desktop ExG, Orientation or Bandpower plot

  • Record all the Explore ExG, Orientation and Marker streams and external marker streams as CSV*

  • Use the LSL visualizer to visualize all LSL streams*

LSL integration with third-party softwares

To integrate with third-party stimulation and analysis software, for example E-Prime and NeuroPype, and third-party hardware streams, users can push all the data to LSL and do one of the following:

  • Record all data and marker streams** with Lab Recorder

  • Record all the Explore ExG, Orientation and Marker streams and external marker streams as CSV within Explore Desktop.*

  • Mentalab Hypersync-only feature

    • Also possible without Hypersync with lower time-accuracy