arXiv AI

A comparative and critical study of EEGNet for fNIRS-driven cognitive load classification

arXiv:2606. 16160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurately classifying cognitive load from functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals remains a significant challenge due to temporal variability, inter-subject differences, and sensitivity to preprocessing choices.

arXiv AI
Jun 26

Wearable Device-Based Real-Time Monitoring of Physiological Signals: Evaluating Cognitive Load Across Different Tasks

arXiv:2406. 07147v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study employs cutting-edge wearable monitoring technology to conduct high-precision, high-temporal-resolution (1-second interval) cognitive load assessment on electroencephalogram (EEG) data from the FP1 channel and heart rate variability (HRV) data of secondary vocational students.

By Ling He, Yanxin Chen, Wenqi Wang, Shuting He, Xiaoqiang Hu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Temporal Generalization in fNIRS-Based Autism Classification: A Cross-Time-Window Transfer Benchmark

arXiv:2608. 07567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising modality for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) classification, yet existing approaches assume temporally aligned evaluation.

By Marios Petrov, Sahana Vinayak, Targol Bakhtiarvand, Moses Smith Guddah, Adham Atyabi, Frederick Shic, Kevin A. Pelphrey
arXiv AI
Jul 7

CogAdapt: Adapting Clinical ECG Foundation Models for Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment

arXiv:2605. 22774v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assessing cognitive load continuously and at low latency would help adaptive human-computer interaction, but it remains hard because labeled data are scarce and models generalize poorly across subjects.

By Amir Mousavi, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Sadegh Sirjani, Mimi Xie, Rocky Slavin, Leslie Neely, John Davis, John Quarles
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Towards a Unified Modality-Agnostic Multimodal Framework for Cognitive Workload Assessment

The paper presents a modality‑agnostic, hierarchical Transformer framework for assessing cognitive workload using heterogeneous biosignals. In a pilot study, the authors evaluated all 31 combinations of five modalities (ECG, EDA, RESP, SpO₂, EEG) across three tasks (IQ, MATH, GAME) and found that EEG alone performed best, while adding more modalities did not consistently improve results. The full five‑modality model achieved the highest average accuracy (73.02% on IQ, 68.08% overall) and reduced model size by about 50% compared to late‑fusion approaches.

By Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Calvin Joseph, Giorgos Giannakakis, Raul Fernandez Rojas
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

BRIDGE-EEG: Bridging Self-Supervised Pretraining and Efficient Deployment for Cross-Dataset EEG Classification

BRIDGE-EEG is an efficient multi‑task EEG classification pipeline that leverages self‑supervised pretraining while dramatically reducing model size. It maps heterogeneous EEG recordings to a unified 62‑channel time‑frequency representation, pretrains an SE‑ResNet18 teacher with SimCLR, and distills it into smaller SE‑ResNet8 and SE‑ResNet4 students. The compact models achieve accuracy comparable to or better than larger foundation models on abnormality detection and emotion recognition, and they consume up to three times less energy on edge devices, enabling deployment on wearable hardware.

By Meghna Roy Chowdhury, Chengwei Zhou, Haotian Yu, Gourav Datta, Shreyas Sen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Bayesian Complete-Pooling in Cross-Subject Classification for Motor Imagery Electroencephalogram

arXiv:2607. 22980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have long sought calibration-free operation, but classifiers are typically benchmarked by discrimination alone, blind to whether predicted probabilities are well calibrated - a meaningful gap given nonstationary electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and the risk of overconfident point-estimate classifiers under distribution shift.

By Ethan Davis