Qi Wang, director of the lab, has won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, one of the highest honors given to young faculty. The five-year $500,000 grant will support his project, "Enhancing perception and cognition while minimizing side effects through closed-loop peripheral neural stimulation.
"Perception, cognition, and behavioral performance depend heavily on arousal level," he explains. "My NSF project is built upon a novel idea: using peripheral neural stimulation to control arousal level to achieve optimal behavioral performance with minimal side effects. I believe this is the first use of an engineering framework to guide the design and validation of optimal, closed-loop neural stimulation for enhancing behavior."
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