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2 51精品视频 researchers earned an NSF grant for autism therapy development

Blossoms in front of a blurry Cathedral of Learning

A 51精品视频 research team recently received a $550,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a new brain-computer therapy method to help people with autism.

The team is led by , assistant professor of聽electrical and computer engineering聽at 51精品视频鈥檚 Swanson School of Engineering, and聽, associate professor of psychiatry and psychology in 51精品视频鈥檚聽Department of Psychiatry.

They will develop social interaction scenarios in virtual environments while recording EEG responses simultaneously in order to detect patterns that represent changes in distress levels. The virtual scenario will then present audio or visual cues to help remind them how to handle stress. The project will also develop new machine learning algorithms and neuroscience methods to identify EEG features associated with emotion regulation to classify between distress and non-distress conditions, and to distinguish among different distress levels.