2010 Neuroscience Director's Strategic Initiative

Abstract

Understanding how Soldiers' cognitive abilities meet the increasing demands of dynamic, complex, and stressful environments is critical for the development of systems that optimize mission effectiveness and maximize Soldier survivability. In order to acquire, monitor, and assess Soldier sensory, perceptual, emotional, cognitive, and physical performance within realistic operational environments, new technologies must be further developed to enable sensing capabilities in these dynamic environments, and innovative research paradigms and data analysis methods must be enhanced, validated, and transitioned into system designs. Thus, the 2010 Neuroscience Director's Strategic Initiative (DSI) research aims to advance neuroscientific methodologies and technologies to enable revolutionary advances in Soldier-system performance by integrating modern neuroscience with human factors, psychology, and engineering. This report covers three independent projects supporting this effort. First, Tzyy-Ping Jung and colleagues (University of California, San Diego) present their advances in developing a neuroimaging system comprised of electro-optode sensors for simultaneous recording of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) from Soldiers in operational environments. Second, Anthony Ries and Kaleb McDowell (U.S. Army Research Laboratory [ARL]) outline their testing and evaluation of a brain state classification algorithm from EEG data acquired from participants performing tasks with varied cognitive demands. Third, Kaleb McDowell, Scott Kerick, and Kelvin Oie (ARL) report on their implementation of a new nonlinear signal processing algorithm on EEG data acquired from participants performing a task in noisy environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA538505

Entities

People

  • Anthony J. Ries
  • Jeng-ren Duann
  • Jin-chern Chiou
  • Kaleb G. McDowell
  • Kelvin Oie
  • Liyi Dai
  • Scott Kerick
  • Tzyy-Ping Jung

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
  • Detectors
  • Electroencephalography
  • Health Services
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Military Research
  • Network Science
  • Psychology
  • Semiconductors
  • Signal Processing
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.