INSIGHT

How do every day stressors impact our capacity for insight and problem solving? Because problem solving is a complex ability that involves many aspects of cognition, our group approaches this question by integrating clues from many sources, including human behavior, brain activity, and autonomic function. We are working to relate changes in self-reported stress and fatigue to variability in solution search strategies, allocation of visual attention, measures of arousal and neurocognitive engagement. Our methods leverage recent advances in lightweight biometric sensors, virtual reality, eye tracking, EEG, as well as state of the art immersive Virtual Reality.

Primary location: La Jolla United States