Workload and Emotion

This project involves measuring workload and emotion while participants view music videos. Uses the DEAP dataset as stimuli and machine learning on cognitive data to develop classification models for new brain states.

  • Researchers: Danushka Bandara, Leanne Hirshfield, Mark Costa, Sarah Bratt, Mingyu Zhong
  • Funders: Newhouse Endowment

Database-X

Working on a database that will enable researchers in the lab to share data for cross-experimental analysis. The long term goal is to have a database that will support automated hypothesis testing and model development, including integration with systems that algorithmically scan the literature for hypotheses to test.

  • Researchers: Mark Costa, Leanne Hirshfield
  • Funder: U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Program

 

Change in State Suspicion

My project has 3 experiments in an investigation of the overall neural activity of change in state suspicion  (CISS). Instant messaging between partners, fNIRS measurement of state suspicion, and an experiment conducted online with authentic and fake phishing websites. 

  • Researchers: Leanne Hirshfield, Philip Bobko, Alex Barelka, Mark Costa, Sarah Bratt
  • Funder: U.S. Air Force

 

Pilot’s Perceptions of Autonomous Systems

We investigated U.S. Army helicopter pilots’ perceptions of autonomous systems. The goal is to help the VTD identify core considerations related to the integration of the Artificial Intelligence system they are developing into future helicopters.

  • Researchers: Leanne Hirshfield, Mark Costa
  • Funder: U.S. Army Vehicle Technology Directorate

 

Meditation

The meditation project involves using fNIRS to detect differences in brain state of individuals meditating. A collaboration with Hamilton State College faculty and students, the meditation experiment is aimed at assessing the effects of meditative states on the brain. Longitudinal studies with vulnerable populations such as trauma victims, veterans, and other local individuals is part of future work. 

  • Researchers: Leanne Hirshfield, Danushka Bandara, Mark Costa, Stuart Hirshfield, Sarah Bratt
  • Funder: Newhouse Endowment